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Edward Duncan 1803-1882.
Study of a Covered Boat.
With artist’s studio stamp lower right pencil.
85 x 142 mm., 3 ¼ x 5 ½ in.
Provenance:
Probably the Artist’s studio sale, 11th March 1885.
With the Hampshire Gallery, 1994.
Private Collection until 2013.
With Guy Peppiatt Fine Art, 2014, where bought by the present owner.
Exhibited:
Guy Peppiatt Fine Art, Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolours by Edward Duncan, 5th to 9th February 2014.
Duncan’s early career was as an engraver, primarily of sporting and marine subjects and from 1843 to 1851, he was on the staff of the Illustrated London News.
The present group of carefully observed drawings of boats demonstrates Duncan’s delicacy and precision of line, for which he was celebrated. They are part of a group of sketches of boats drawn on Mumbles Beach, South Wales.
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