- Description
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- Creator
- Unidentified circle of Towne
- Title(s)
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- Landscape Composition
- Geneva
- Lakeside Landscape at Geneva
- Lake Leman
- Date
- No date
- Medium
- Watercolour (?)
- Dimensions
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- image height 381mm,
- image width 298mm
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Catalogue Number
- FT866
- Description Sources
- Fine Art Society records; Bury (image)
Provenance
Untraced until 12 June 1935 when sold by the Fine Art Society for £29 8s. to Charles E. Russell of 23 Rutland Gate, London, as “Geneva”. Russell sold it as “Lakeside Landscape at Geneva” at Sotheby’s on 18 October 1950, lot 46, for £150 to Agnew’s (no.6316) on behalf of L. Abel Smith (presumably Lady Abel Smith [1906–1994]). It was sold at Christie’s on 2 February 1958, lot 94, for £262 10s. to the Fine Art Society (no.6613). In 1959 the Fine Art Society sold it again, for £450 to Colonel C. Dawnay (presumably Montgomery’s aide-de-camp Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher “Kit” Dawnay of Longparish) as “Lake Leman”. In 1962 Bury noted it in a private collection, presumably Dawnay’s, whereafter it is untraced.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Christopher Dawnay, 1959, GBP 450
- The Fine Art Society, London, London, 2 February 1958, GBP 262, no.6613
- Christie's, London, London, 2 February 1958, lot 94
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 18 October 1950, GBP 150, no.6316
- Sotheby's, London, London, 18 October 1950, lot 46
- The Fine Art Society, London, London, 1935
- Exhibition History
- Thirty-Ninth Exhibition of Early English Water-Colours and Drawings, Fine Art Society, 1959, no. 31
- Bibliography
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 110 as 'Lac Leman' by Francis Towne
Other entries in Other Pupils, unidentified
The Temple of Romulus, after Richard Wilson
Landscape Composition, after Annibale Carraci
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Comment
This drawing is close to but distinct from the Carraci-derived composition at FT865. Like that drawing, it is probably copied from one of Towne’s own works. Between the 1930s and 1960s it was considered to be the work of Towne himself, but it is clearly by a pupil.