Alexander Nasmyth (Scottish, 1758-1840) Mountainscape with River

Description:

Alexander Nasmyth (Scottish, 1758-1840)

Mountainscape with River
Unsigned, identified on a partial gummed label affixed to stretcher, artist
information including reference to 1927 purchase by P. St. John Langton, London, affixed to stretcher, inscribed "FABER" on stretcher.
Oil on canvas, 27 x 35 in. (68.5 x 88.9 cm),framed.
Condition: Retouch, craquelure, scattered losses.

Provenance: Purchased by P. St. John Langton, London, in 1927; through to Richard B. Faber; purchased from the above at the Kent Show in Connecticut in 1973; from the buyer to the current owner.

N.B. The sale of this lot will benefit the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts.


Estimate $1,500-2,500

E.57.11.88

With a label on the stretcher from James Bourlet & Son, 17 & 18 Nassau Street/Mortimer Street (London) on the stretcher.

LIned with an old glue lining. Dots of retouch primarily to sky, perhaps about a dozen or so in all, the largest two measuring 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 inches in diameter, with a few minor dots in the lower landscape. Paint losses at top center edge, also a loss measuring 1/8 inch diameter located to the left of the tallest peak in the u.r. quadrant. Fine, stable craquelure in the sky and with a stretcher bar mark along the top edge of the canvas. More small paint losses along the lower edge, the largest measuring 3/16 inch, with some shrinking of the pigment surface along that bottom edge.

Possible scattered spots of mold on the reverse.


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