Exhibitions: Museums and Galleries, Art Dealers, Auction Houses

The Choice Collection of Water Colour Drawings of Mrs. Stern

Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods

Reference: Christie’s, 19 June 1908

Lugt, Catalogues, no.66706

Copy consulted: Library of the Paul Mellon Centre, London

Thomas Girtin

  • 25 – ‘A River Scene, with a castle and a peasant boy’, 10 × 13 ½ in (25.4 × 34.3 cm). Bought by ‘Palser’ for £17 17s (TG1269)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)

  • 54 – 'Bedington. A peasant watering cattle in the river, near an old stone bridge; the church beyond', 18 ¾ × 26 in (47.6 × 66 cm). Bought by Agnew's for 100 gns. This was then attributed by Agnew's to Girtin and sold to Benjamin Chandler in 1910. More recently it has been sold as by Turner with the title of Bromfield on the River Onny, near Ludlow (Sotheby’s, 14 November 1996, lot 53).

Identified Exhibits