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Property from the collects ion of the late Cyril and Shirley Fry

John Hamilton Mort.mes r, A.R.A.

Four Banditti in a Landscape

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July 8, 01:41 PM GTNN

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the collects ion of the late Cyril and Shirley Fry

John Hamilton Mort.mes r, A.R.A.

Eastbourne 1740 - 1779 London

Four Banditti in a Landscape


Pen and black ink on laid paper

276 by 212 mm

Sir George Beaumont, 7th Bt (1753-1827)
Eastbourne, Towner Art Gallery & London, Kenwood House, John Hamilton Mort.mes r, A.R.A. 1740-1779, 1986, no. 64
J. Sunderland, 'John Hamilton Mort.mes r. His life and works', Walpole Society, vol. LII, 1986, p. 203, no. 174, fig. 301
This drawing dates to the middle of the 1770s and belongs to a group that focus on banditti and soliders.1

The work belonged to Sir George Beaumont, 7th Bt, a leading figure in the artistic and literary worlds of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. 

1. Sunderland, op. cit., pp. 201-203, nos, 169-177

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