A Way of Life: The Collection of Barbara & Ernest Kafka
Luke Clennell
Figures playing with dice on a barrel in a Harbour
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A Way of Life: The Collection of Barbara & Ernest Kafka
Luke Clennell
Ulgham, Northumberland 1781 - 1840 Newcastle
Figures playing with dice on a barrel in a Harbour
Watercolour over pencil, heightened with gum arabic
151 by 207 mm
with Agnew's, London;
where acquired by the late owners
Clennell worked as a watercolour painter and wood engraver, firstly in Northumberland and later in London; his watercolours seldom appear on the market.
There is a comparable watercolour, in terms of subject and execution, held at the Yale Centre for British Art.1 That work is inscribed: Ferry boat Newcastle on Tyne.
1. acc. no. B1975.4.124
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