The Spooner Collection of British Watercolours at the Courtauld Institute Gallery

Broughton, Michael and Clarke, William and Selbourne, Joanna

ISBN 10: 187078796X / ISBN 13: 9781870787963

Published by The Wordsworth Trust, 2006

About this Item

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Spooner Collection of British Watercolours at the Courtauld Institute Gallery
• Publisher: The Wordsworth Trust
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 187078796X
• ISBN 13: 9781870787963
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Used; Good

About this title

Synopsis

This catalogue accompanies the first major exhibition of the distinguished collection of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British watercolours assembled by William and Mercie Spooner. Bequeathed to the Courtauld Institute in 1967, the collection includes outstanding works by John Constable, John Sell Cotman, Alexander and John Robert Cozens, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Girtin, Samuel Palmer, Thomas Rowlandson, Paul Sandby, Francis Towne, J. M. W. Turner and Peter De Wint, as well as numerous watercolours by lesser-known artists. Essays on William Spooner, the connoisseurship of watercolours and their production and literary associations serve to introduce this fully-illustrated catalogue.

About the Author

Michael Broughton is chairman of the W. W. Spooner Charitable Trust. Other contributors include William Clarke, John Murdoch, Joanna Selbourne, Greg Smith, and Robert Woof.