Study of a sleeping hound
Watercolour and pencil
14 x 19 cm
Provenance:
From the estate of the artist
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George Augustus Wallis was an English Romantic landscape artist active mainly in Italy, where he travelled widely. His work originally displayed Neoclassical influences but he later developed a distinct personal style based on direct observation of nature, as revealed by his landscape oil sketches.
Indeed, the present work, an intimate portrayal of a sleeping hound, was almost certainly executed in Italy directly from life. Even on a small scale, the artist’s powers of immediate study and sensitive treatment of light are extremely evident.
George Augustus Wallis (Merton 1761-1847 Florence)
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