William Sawrey Gilpin 1762-1843 English School 18th.Century. Watercolour Signed lower right. Scenery in the Grounds of Downton, inscribed to the reverse with title. Circa.1790. 40.8 by 30 cms image. 48 by 37.5 cms. on backing mount. Provenance: Iolo Williams.
William Sawrey Gilpin was an English Watercolourist, drawing-master and in later life a successful landscape garden designer. Founding member and the first President of the Old Watercolour Society.
This particular work is Illustrated and discussed in Iolo Williams "Early English Water-Colours, and some Cognate Drawings by Artist's Born Not Later Than 1785" the seminal work on the subject. Plate CLXII.
Downton Castle is a privately owned 18th.Century Grade 1 listed country house located near Ludlow on the Shropshire Herefordshire borders.
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