- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Landscape with Horseman and Goats
- Landscape with cattle on a road
- Horseman and Goats
- Date
- ca. 1790
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and brown ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image height 279mm,
- image width 297mm
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Collection
- Catalogue Number
- FT870
- Description Sources
- Museum records (image)
Provenance
Bought by Howard Spensley (1869/1870–1938) from Squire Gallery on 22 October 1934 (where it was exhibited as no.6) for 11½ guineas, and bequeathed by him to the current owner, the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia (no.762 in the Spensley Catalogue). The drawing is said by the museum to have originated with the Merivale family and is possibly BP273, Horseman and Goats.
- Associated People & Organisations
- National Gallery National Gallery of Victoria, Victoria, 1938, 613-4
- Howard Spensley (1869/70 - 1938), 22 October 1934, GBP 11.5 guineas
- Squire Gallery, London, 22 October 1934, GBP 11.5gns
- [?] Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, 1915, BP273
- [?] Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, 1915, BP273
- [?] John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- [?] James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
Other entries in Unidentified Subjects, ca. 1783–1800
Francis Towne
Landscape with Horseman and Goats
Landscape with Horseman and Goats
National Gallery National Gallery of Victoria
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Comment
This is perhaps an idealised rustic landscape rather than an actual scene. Its provenance prior to 1934 is unknown, although given its sale at Squire Gallery, it would be surprising if it had not originated in Barton Place. On examination of a good colour image of this drawing, it seems clear that it is the work of Towne himself, rather than a pupil, and for that reason its attribution has changed since the PhD version of this catalogue. It was probably drawn in the years around 1790 and is comparable to FT537 and FT570.