GEORGE JOHN PINWELL | THE GREAT LADY

Bought in 1873 by William Austin Esq. of Ellern Mede, Totteridge;

R.E. Tatham of 20 York Street, London, his sale Christie's, London, 29 February 1908, lot 76;

Seymour Collins Esq.;

Abbott & Holder, London, where purchased by the previous owner in 1971 and thence by descent

London, Royal Watercolour Society, Summer Exhibition, 1873, no.123;

London, Deschamps Gallery, Exhibition of Works by the Late G.J. Pinwell, 1876, no.44;

Paris, Universal Exhibition (British Replica Handbags Section; Class 2), 1878, no.119;

Possibly London, Royal Watercolour Society Art Club, 1888, no.86;

Birmingham, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Spring Exhibition (Special Collection of Works by the Late G.J. Pinwell, RWS and the Late George Mason, ARA), 1895, no.422;

Newcastle, Laing Art Gallery, Special Inaugural Loan Exhibition, 1904

' Replica Handbags s: The Society of Painters in Watercolours', Athenaeum, 3 May 1873, pp.571-73 'by far the most powerful and vigorous of the artist's works';

' Replica Handbags s: Watercolour Exhibitions; The Old Society', Illustrated London News, 3 May 1873, p.422;

'Watercolour Exhibitions', The Globe, 7 May 1873, p.6, 'the most attractive object on the walls';

'Watercolour Exhibitions', The Times, 9 May 1873, p.4;

'The Watercolour Exhibitions', The Examiner, 10 May 1873, pp.488–90, 'most important figure-picture';

'The Society of Painters in Watercolours', The Art Journal, June 1873, pp.173–74;

'Literature, Science, and Art', John Bull, 7 June 1873, p.381;

'Works of the Late G. J. Pinwell', The Globe, 21 February 1876, p.6 'marks the culminating point of the painter's art';

'Exhibition of the Works of G. J. Pinwell', Pall Mall Gazette, 23 February 1876, pp.11-12;

'The Late Mr. Pinwell — Exhibition of His Works', Birmingham Daily Post, 26 February 1876, p.5, 'probably the most perfect work of his pencil';

George C. Williamson, George J. Pinwell and his Works, London, 1900, pp.21, 58;

David Croal Thomson, 'The International Exhibition at Glasgow: The Pictures', The Art Journal, November 1901, pp.321–25;

Donato Esposito, Frederick Walker and the Idyllists, London, 2017, p.58

We are grateful to Donato Esposito for his assistance cataloguing this lot.