Ruined ash tree in Rydale Park, Ambleside, Lake District

Name: WILLIAM GREEN (MANCHESTER 1760-1823 AMBLESIDE)
Brand: Ruined ash tree in Rydale Park, Ambleside, Lake District
Price: 8000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 10,080

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GBP 4,000 - GBP 6,000

Closed: 24 Mar 2022

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WILLIAM GREEN (MANCHESTER 1760-1823 AMBLESIDE)

Ruined ash tree in Rydale Park, Ambleside, Lake District

Price Realised GBP 10,080

Closed: 24 Mar 2022

Price Realised GBP 10,080

Closed: 24 Mar 2022

WILLIAM GREEN (MANCHESTER 1760-1823 AMBLESIDE)
Ruined ash tree in Rydale Park, Ambleside, Lake District
signed, inscribed and dated ''Ruined Ash tree in Rydale Park, out/ of which grows a mountain ash/ W^mGreen 1805' (on a fragment of the old mount on the reverse of the frame)
pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour heightened with gum arabic and with scratching out on paper
14¹⁄₄ x 19⁷⁄₈ in. (36.2 x 50.5 cm.)

John Appleby; Christie's, South Kensington, 4 November 2010, lot 117.

London, Martyn Gregory, An Exhibition of British Watercolours and Drawings 1730-1870, cat. 89, 10-25 May 2012, no. 36.

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Lot Essay

The son of a schoolmaster, William Green embarked initially on a career as a surveyor, contributing to a survey of the County of Lancaster in 1778. His interests, however, lay increasingly in landscape drawing and watercolour. He opened two drawing schools in his native Manchester, and in the 1790s produced a series of 'picturesque views' of the Lake District, Wales and the north of England. He moved briefly to London before settling at Ambleside in about 1800. Here he devoted himself to exploring and depicting the mountainous scenery of the Lake District, producing etchings as well as drawings and watercolours of the region. In his 'Exhibition and Sale Rooms' at Ambleside and Keswick he sold his prints for as much as 20 guineas a pair. The trees of Rydale Park were one of his most popular subjects. He befriended William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge, and compiled in 1819, in which he proposed to 'save from the wreck of time and the busy hand of man the best specimens of this mountain architecture '.
Green used fugitive pigments and many of his large watercolorus are badly faded. The present drawing is in exceptionally fine condition.