Name: JOHN THIRTLE (NORWICH 1777-1839)
Brand: St. Benet's Abbey, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Price: 8000.00 GBP
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JOHN THIRTLE (NORWICH 1777-1839)
St. Benet's Abbey, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
pencil and watercolour heightened with touches of bodycolour and with scratching out
17¹⁄₂ x 23³⁄₄ in. (44.5 x 60.4 cm.)

J.N. Waite.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 30 November 2000, lot 319.

Norwich, Old Bank of England Chambers Norwich Art Circle Third Exhibition: 'John Thirtle', July 1886, no. 31, lent by J.N. Waite.
Great Yarmouth, Great Yarmouth Town Hall, Art Loan Exhibition of the Book Fund of the Free Library, May 1889, no. 86, lent by J.N. Waite.
London, Martyn Gregory, An Exhibition of British Watercolours and Drawings 1730-1870, cat. 89, 10-25 May 2012, no. 66.

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The windmill built within St Benet's Abbey was a popular subject for the Norwich School artists, it was etched by John Sell Cotman (1782-1842) who also painted a watercolour of it much later in 1831 (Norwich Castle Museum). It provided artists with a unique combination of picturesque feature, being built within the ruined gate house of St Benet's Abbey near the banks of the river Bure in Norfolk.
Thirtle exhibited views of St Benet's Abbey at the Norwich Society of Artists in 1811 and 1828 and there are three other drawings dating from circa 1811 and a large watercolour, circa 1813-1816 of the subject, in the Norwich Castle Museum, all painted from differing view points to the present work (see M. Allthorpe-Guyton, John Thirtle-Drawings in Norwich Castle Museum, 1977, nos. 21, 22, 24, 25).