Name: WILLIAM CALLOW, R.W.S. (LONDON 1812-1908 GREAT MISSENDEN)
Brand: View of Namur, Belgium
Price: 3500.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

WILLIAM CALLOW, R.W.S. (LONDON 1812-1908 GREAT MISSENDEN)
View of Namur, Belgium
signed 'W Callow' (lower left)
pencil and watercolour heightened with touches of bodycolour and with scratching out on paper
13¹⁄₈ x 19¹⁄₂ in. (33.3 x 49.5 cm.)

D. Lukin Johnstone, Canada, where purchased by the present owner, 1986.

London, Fine Art Society, June 1950, no. 5474.
London, Martyn Gregory, An Exhibition of Early English Watercolours and Drawings, cat. 45, 17 November - 6 December 1986, no. 20.
London, Martyn Gregory, British Watercolours and Drawings, cat. 95, 2016, no. 5.

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A pencil sketch at Tate Britain of the present view, with slight variations in the barges and staffage, is dated '1844', and so it is likely that the present watercolour dates from Callow's early tour of Belgium in August 1844, when he set out to revisit the Rhine and the Moselle, and probably travelled through Namur on his way to Cologne.
He revisited the city in both 1867 and 1894, depicting it from a more traditional angle emphasising the looming presence of the fortress, barely visible here.