- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- Holland House, Kensington
- Date
- 1801/06/18
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and ink
- Dimensions
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- image width 220mm,
- image length 370mm
- Support
- paper with the watermark “I.Taylor 1795”
- Inscription
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- sheet, verso
- “Holland House near Kensington / morning light from the right hand / June 18th 1801 F.Towne”
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
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- Catalogue Number
- FT625
- Description Sources
- Christie's records
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 Emily Harriet Buckingham (b.1853) inherited the drawing in 1915. It was offered for sale at Christie’s on 4 February 1986, lot 6, whereafter it is untraced.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Christie's, London, London, 4 February 1986, lot 6
- Emily Harriet Buckingham (1853 - 1923), 1915
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
Other entries in London, Hampshire and Surrey, ca. 1782-1801
Francis Towne
A View in Hyde Park looking towards the Serpentine River
A View in Hyde Park looking towards the Serpentine River
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Comment
Holland House, a Jacobean mansion in Kensington, was the home in 1801 of Henry Fox, 3rd Baron Holland (1773–1840). Fox was the nephew of Charles James Fox and was himself a leading Whig figure of the early nineteenth century. He visited the Royal Academy exhibition in 1802 but appears not to have been nearly as interested in fine art as his uncle.