- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- A View taken from Millbank
- Date
- 1797/07
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and brown ink, watercolour
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower left
- “F.Towne delt 1797”
- Inscription
-
- artist's mount, verso
- “A View taken from Millbank / of the first Windmill on the other / side the River Thames drawn / on the Spot July 1797 / by / Francis Towne / No114 new Bond Street / London”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Catalogue Number
- FT595
- Description Sources
- Christie's records (image)
Provenance
Bequeathed by the artist in 1816 to James White of Exeter (1744–1825), on whose death it passed to Towne’s residuary legatee John Herman Merivale (1779–1844) and his successors. Merivale’s granddaughter Mary Ann Loveband (b.1865, alive in 1951; see also 499, 500) sold the drawing to Agnew’s (no.3099) on 22 July 1940 for £20 and it was bought from Agnew’s on 19 July 1940(sic) by H. G. Paterson (also FT546, FT784) for £36 15s. It was later owned by Walter Treverbian Prideaux (1875–1958) of Ockley, Surrey, who sold it at Sotheby’s on 6 June 1951, lot 33, for £52 to Agnew’s (no.6595). On 30 August 1951 Agnew’s sold it for £85 to J, Hawkesley Elliott of Sheffield (d. ca. 1978), whose daughter sold it at Christie’s on 14 March 1978, lot 84, for £1,200 to Spink. On 27 April 1979 Spink sold it for £1,500 to “a private UK collector”. It was sold at Sotheby’s on 17 November 1988, lot 109, for £2,900, whereafter it is untraced.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Private Collection, 17 November 1988, GBP 2900
- Sotheby's, London, London, 17 November 1988, lot 109
- Private Collection, 27 April 1979, GBP 1500
- Spink & Son, London, London, 14 March 1978, GBP 1200
- Christie's, London, London, 14 March 1978, lot 84
- Joseph Hawksley Elliot (1884 - 1978), Sheffield, 30 August 1951, GBP 85
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 6 June 1951, no.6595
- Sotheby's, London, London, 6 June 1951, GBP 52, lot 33
- Walter Treverbian Prideaux (1875 - 1958), Ockley, Surrey, June 1951
- H. G. Paterson, GBP 36.15s
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 22 July 1940, GBP 20, no.3099
- Joyce Merivale Loveband (1895), July 1940
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
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