View of Flint, Wales
William Callow (Greenwich 1812 - Great Missenden 1908)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1868
Materials
Watercolour on paper glazed in a giltwood frame
Measurements
178 x 255 mm
Place of origin
Unknown
Order this imageCollection
Dudmaston, Shropshire
NT 813594
Summary
Watercolour and pencil on paper, View of Flint, Wales by William Callow (Greenwich 1812 – Great Missenden 1908), 1868. A pencil drawn watercolour of the quay at Flint, with a rowing boat and bouys moored at the jetty, with a small group of male figures. To the left a view of the estuary and sailing boats. Card mount, gilt line border; glazed in giltwood frame. 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 late 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
Walker's Galleries Ltd, 118 New Bond St, London W1, 1932, no.28 when purchased by Evelyn Blacklock (née Wolryche-Whitmore and thence by descent to Rachel Katherine Hamilton Russell, Lady Labouchere (1908 – 1996) by whom given along with the Dudmaston estate in 1978
Marks and inscriptions
Bottom left: Flint - July 5.68
Makers and roles
William Callow (Greenwich 1812 - Great Missenden 1908), artist