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WILLIAM EVANS OF BRISTOL (BRISTOL 1809-1858 LONDON)
A kitchen interior with a woman spinning
signed and dated 'Wm Evans 1848.' (lower left)
pencil and watercolour heightened with touches of bodycolour and with scratching out on paper
912 x 1414 in. (24.2 x 36.2 cm.)
Provenance
David Addey, and by descent to his daughter
Mrs Sue Wood.
Exhibited
London, Martyn Gregory, William Evans of Bristol (1809-1858), cat. 49, 10-28 November 1987, no. 15.
London, Martyn Gregory, An Exhibition of English Watercolours and Drawings 1690-1990, cat. 58, 30 October - 22 November 1991, no. 58.
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Lot Essay

This is perhaps the same watercolour exhibited at the Society of Painters in Water Colour in 1848 as ‘Interior of a Welch [sic] Cottage’. Evans also exhibited a similar subject in 1849.
For a biographical note on the artist, please see lot 49.

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