This auction is for an ORIGINAL William Havell watercolor over graphite painting - It is signed on the obverse in ink using a fountain pen and is hand-dated 1813. Havell's work can be seen in major museums and galleries across the globe! This particular watercolor shows signs of foxing but merely adds to its 210-year age in my opinion; this can of course be cleaned by a professional conservator - On the reverse, you can see markings relating to its provenance as well as a monogram.

Measurements with the frame: 21" x 17"

William Havell (9 February 1782 – 16 December 1857) was an English landscape painter, one of the Havell family of artists, and a founding member of the Society of Painters in Watercolours.

He traveled to Wales in 1802-03 and in 1807 settled in a cottage at Ambleside in the magnificent countryside of the Lake District. 

He contributed illustrations to several periodicals and a series of his paintings was published in aquatint as Picturesque Views of the River Thames (1812). In 1813 he seceded from the Watercolour Society, but under a then-existing rule continued to contribute to their exhibitions, as well as to the Royal Academy, where he exhibited in 1812 and 1814.

In 1816, he signed up to be the official artist to the embassy of China led by William Pitt, Earl Amherst of Arracan to the Chinese Emperor Jiaqing, but abandoned this venture during a stop in Macao, then spent the next eight years in India painting portraits and landscapes in watercolor. He rejoined the Old Society when he returned to London in 1827, but after 1830 painted exclusively in oils. Havell is a classicizing painter with more individuality and romantic tendencies than most of his contemporaries.

Between 1804 and 1857 he exhibited 103 landscapes at the Royal Academy, 42 at the esteemed British Institution, and 32 at Suffolk Street.

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