Still Life of Fruit and Flowers on a Rocky Edge
James Hewlett (d. Isleworth 1836)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1800 - 1900
Materials
Watercolour on paper
Measurements
390 x 305 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 959295
Summary
Watercolour on paper, Still Life of Fruit and Flowers on a Rocky Edge by James Hewlett (d. Isleworth 1836). A still life depicting fruit and flowers with peach, halved apricot, plums, currants at base, fuchsia, red stocks, heartsease and borage above in moulded giltwood frame with relief corner decoration.
Provenance
This is one of four works by James Hewlett belived to have been left to Emma Winn, eldest daughter of Charles and Priscilla Winn (owners of Nostell) by her former governess, Miss Hill. Hill ran a private school in Bath which was attended by Louisa Winn (sister of Charles) and Emma. Hewlett acted as a visiting art tutor to the school and later married Hill. Purchased by the National Trust by private treaty sale from Lord St Oswald in 2010
Credit line
Nostell Priory, The St Oswald Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
James Hewlett (d. Isleworth 1836), artist
References
Brockwell 1915 Maurice Walter Brockwell, Catalogue of the Pictures and Other Works of Art in the Collection of Lord St Oswald at Nostell Priory, London 1915, no,. 208