PETER DE WINT
(1784-1849)

 

Thatched Cottage at Minehead

watercolour with scratching out on paper

29.6 x 39.6 cm

inscribed on reverse: Minehead, Somersetshire

P.381

Although it is true that this has not been finished, it seems doubtful that he intended to work on it further, for one feels that this rapidly executed watercolour succeeds in depicting exactly what attracted him to the subject.

EJ

PROVENANCE: W.G. Boulton, Stoke-on-Trent, from whom purchased by Gallery, October 1960.

REFERENCES: H. Smith, Peter de Wint, 1982, p.163, as Unfinished Sketch.

Copyright © Trustees of Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford.

Extract taken from Watercolours and Drawings, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery by Evelyn Joll.