NON-SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
(British Drawings and Prints of Two Centuries – Plus a Few Precursors)
(British Drawings and Prints of Two Centuries – Plus a Few Precursors)
- Laroon, The Quarrel
- Hollar, Glastoniensis
- Hollar, Landscape with Herdsmen
- Smith, Mr. Will: Richards
- Hogarth, Southwark Fair
- Smith, The Virgin Mary
- Hogarth, Midnight Modern
- Robinson, Banquet Piece
- att. to Vanderbank, Senesino
- Beauclerk, Street Musicians
- Haward, Mrs. Siddons
- Gillray, Comfort to the Corns
- Cheesman, The Seamstress
- Anonymous, Diamond
- Rowlandson, Gaffers
- Bartolozzi, Miss Farren
- Anonymous, Beatrice Fishing
- Say, Miss Mellon
- Rowlandson, The Poacher
- Smith, Narcissa
- Cruikshank, The Cholic
- Vendramini, Strawberrys, Scarlet
- Cruikshank, A Catalanian PicNic
- Morland, Peasants Resting
- Cruikshank, Sales by Auction!
- Daniell, Joseph Haydn
- Williams, Leap Year
- Finch, In the Park
- Cruikshank, A Consultation
- Anonymous, Duck Shooting
- Heath, A Pleasant Draught
- O’Neill, The Mill
- Cruikshank, Hint to the Blind
- Craig, Trees
- Heath, Blessing of Cheap Cider
- Calvert, The Brook
- Calvert, Cottage and Trees
- Lisle, I’d be a butterfly
- Palmer, Early Plowman
- Leitch, Shepherd
- Whistler, La Vieille aux Loques
- Haden, A Water Meadow
- Whistler, The Brothers
- Cameron, The Palace
- Strang, The Cause of the Poor
- Detmold, Long-Eared Bat
- Detmold, Phoenix
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40. William Leighton Leitch (1804-1883) Shepherd with His Flock at Sunset |
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Shepherd with His Flock at Sunset
Original watercolor, 1862, 233 x 365 mm., on wove paper laid down to board, signed and dated; the paper tone darkened. Watercolor was an immensely popular medium in Britain and its practitioners, across the centuries, included some of the greatest British artists: Sandby, Gainsborough, Bonington, Turner, Cox, Girtin, Constable and Whistler. Leitch, a Scot, was not in that class, but he had considerable ability and achieved notable success. He was Vice President of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours and was drawing master to Queen Victoria for over twenty years. He began, like a number of British artists, as a painter of theater scenery, but soon restricted himself to watercolor, supporting himself by teaching. Though he traveled on the continent, many of his works (like this one) portray England or his native Scotland.
