Other entries in Merivale Family
Louisa Heath Drury (née Merivale)
Landscape, probably Oakhampton Castle
Landscape, probably Oakhampton Castle
Frances Mallett (née Merivale), John Herman Merivale
Mount Radford from near the Alphington Road
Mount Radford from near the Alphington Road
John Herman Merivale
Sketchbook of West Country and Midlands Views
Sketchbook of West Country and Midlands Views
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Comment
This was sold as a “continental lake scene”, but it is clearly a version of Wilson’s painting, well known through the engraving by M. Rooker ca. 1776. Another of Towne’s pupils made a copy that Towne himself inscribed as being copied “from a drawing of Francis Towne’s” (FT860), and the immediate source for this drawing may well be the same, especially as it is drawn in a style close to Towne’s and diverges from the engraving in certain details (such as the mountain in the background whose peak is more dramatic, and the absence of people).
Gorringes attributed this drawing to Elizabeth Heath Merivale, but that is a problem as she was John Herman Merivale’s daughter, born in 1822. Could this be something that she owned rather than created?