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WILLIAM JAMES MÜLLER (BRISTOL 1812-1845)
Sketch of trees at Stapleton, Bristol
signed with initials, inscribed and dated 'Stapleton/ WJM. 1833' (lower right)
watercolour heightened with gum arabic and with scratching out on light blue paper
10 x 714 in. (25.4 x 18.5 cm.)
Provenance
Lord St. Oswald, Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
Exhibited
London, Martyn Gregory, British Watercolours and Drawings 1750-1900, cat. 95, May 2016, no. 49.
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In his early years Muller made a number of sketches at Stapleton, which at that time was a village outside Bristol. In 1833, the year of this sketch, he was a member of a sketching club which included John Skinner Prout, Samuel Jackson, and William Evans of Bristol.

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