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PETER DE WINT, O.W.S. (STONE, STAFFORDSHIRE 1784-1849 LONDON)
Still life with a wicker basket, cloth, earthenware pot and brush
pencil and watercolour on paper
934 x 1278 in. (24.8 x 32.7 cm.)
Provenance
Matthew Pryor; Sotheby's, London, 4 July 2002, lot 362.
Exhibited
London, Martyn Gregory, British Watercolours and Drawings, cat. 95, May 2016, no. 23.
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Many of De Wint’s still-lives were executed for his pupils to study from. In this outstanding example, De Wint has carefully arranged the composition to show different tones, textures and materials.
For a note on the artist, please see lot 45.

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