Name: FRANCIS WHEATLEY, R.A. (LONDON 1747-1801)
Brand: Labourers at rest in an extensive wooded landscape
Price: 4000.00 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

FRANCIS WHEATLEY, R.A. (LONDON 1747-1801)
Labourers at rest in an extensive wooded landscape
pencil, pen and grey ink and watercolour on paper
12³⁄₄ x 18⁷⁄₈ in. (32.4 x 48 cm.), oval

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 20 November 1986, lot 42.
Christopher and Jill FitzGerald.

London, Martyn Gregory, An Exhibition of Early English Watercolours and Drawings: with some Oil Paintings by Watercolourists, cat. 54, 1-24 November 1989, no. 118.
London, Martyn Gregory, British Watercolours and Drawings 1750-1900, cat. 95, May 2016, no. 82.

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Known principally as an oil painter, Wheatley also executed watercolour landscapes in the picturesque tradition, tranquil, spacious and with skilfully drawn figures. His landscapes were worked up in the studio from sketches made on tours of the south of England, the Lake District and Ireland.