- Artist
- George Barret Senior 1728 or 32–1784
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 997 × 1248 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Bequeathed by Alan Evans 1974
- Reference
- T01881
Catalogue entry
T01881 RIVER SCENE, WITH WATERMILL, FIGURES AND COWS
Not inscribed
Oil on canvas, 39 1/4×49 1/8 (98.4×124.8)
Bequeathed by Alan Evans to the National Gallery and transferred to the Tate Gallery 1974
Coll: ...;(?) Bohn, 1885; ...; Dr Dyce Brown (deceased), sold Christie's 3 April 1911 (86), bt. Pawsey & Payne; ...; Mrs E. C. West, Christie's 7 July 1916 (as ‘Nasmyth, A water mill with Angler’, one of three in lot 46, ‘from the Bohn Collection, 1885’), bought in; ...; Alan Evans
This is probably a late work, painted when Barret was well established in England. It does not appear to have been exhibited. The location has not been identified, and is probably fanciful.
Published in:
The Tate Gallery 1974-6: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London 1978
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