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Here are the instructions how … Francis Towne (Isleworth 1739-1816 London) The Lake of Wyburn (Thirlmere), with Raven Crag to the left and Skiddaw beyond, Cumberland signed and dated 'F. Sotheby's, London Fine Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century English Drawings and Watercolours.

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Towne travelled to Italy in 1780-81, which was strongly formative for his style, perhaps as much for what he learned from other English watercolourists there as from the sights or Italian art.

Francis Towne (1739-1816) The landscape painter, Francis Towne, spent most of his life in Exeter, earning his living as a drawing master, and sending work to exhibitions in London, where he had only moderate success. 1, and fig.

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del t / 1786' (lower right), and inscribed 'N o 35/ A View of the Lake of Wyburn with Raven Cragg on the left hand & Skiddaw in the Distance, Cumberland/ Drawn on the Spot by Francis Towne/ August 17 th.
Private collection, USA.

425 Catalogue Note Frances Towne executed this ambitious watercolour in 1785, four years after his return from Italy and his Grand Tour.

Francis Towne (1739 or 1740 – 7 July 1816) was a British watercolour landscape painter and teacher, who spent his career between his native London and Exeter. A view of Oakhampton town and castle dating from 1772 is in Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery with another version in the Yale Center for British Art (see Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, exhibition catalogue, 1997, no.

Francis Towne 1739–1816.

The catalogue ide ntifies 1080 works by Francis Towne, an eighteenth-century watercolorist, doubling previously-described totals.

To be included in Richard Stephens’s catalogue raisonné of Francis Towne’s works. However, he was rediscovered and reappraised in the early twentieth century, and is now considered one of the most innovative watercolourists of his age.

154, 155 or 156. Towne. Exh: see Atkins T00964. 10). Adrian Bury, Francis Towne: Lone star of watercolour, 1962, p. 151 (as Keswick, Looking Towards Skiddaw); To be included in Richard Stephens’s catalogue raisonné of the works of Francis Towne as catalogue no. 20, Lower Brook-Street ... A series of original drawings ... by F. Towne, landscape painter.. William Bulmer & Co., London, 1805, probably either no.