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WILLIAM TURNER OF OXFORD, O.W.S. (BLACKBOURTON 1789-1862 OXFORD)
Cottages beside a stream
pencil and white chalk on blue-grey paper
7 x 834 in. (17.8 x 22.2 cm.)
Provenance
Laurence Strenger, New York.
Exhibited
London, Martyn Gregory, An Exhibition of English Watercolours and Drawings 1650-1950, cat. 65, 3-21 April 1995, no. 105.
London, Martyn Gregory, British Watercolours and Drawings 1750-1900, cat. 95, May 2016, no. 74.
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Lot Essay

The present drawing is an early work and dates to around 1812, when William Turner returned from London to live with his uncle in Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire. In London he had studied under John Varley, and became one of the youngest members of the Society of Painters in Water Colours. This is probably a depiction of a village local to Shipton.
For a biographical note on the artist, please see lot 5.

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