View of Windsor
William Callow (Greenwich 1812 - Great Missenden 1908)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1835 (signed and dated)
Materials
Watercolour on paper
Measurements
130 x 231 mm
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 513826
Summary
Watercolour on paper, View of Windsor by William Callow (Greenwich 1812 – Great Missenden 1908), signed and dated July 4 1835. River in foreground, tree to left with castle beyond. Label on mount 'Windsor, W. Callow R.W.S. 1812-1908'. Mounted on card. Callow trained as an engraver before moving to Paris in 1827 where he shared a studio with Thomas Shotter Boys and following the style of Bonington he used a fine brush to give his watercolours an almost calligraphic quality. This is a relatively early work. From 1834 he was a drawing master to the family of King Louis-Philippe, was elected associate of the Society of Painter in Water-Colours in 1838 (becoming a full member in 1848), came to London in 1841, married in 1846, retired to Great Missenden in 1854 and travelled on the continent, particularly in Germany, with is wife in the 1850s and 60s.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust by Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) with the house and the rest of the contents.
Makers and roles
William Callow (Greenwich 1812 - Great Missenden 1908)