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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. Some very light foxing on top but pages are clear and bright. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Among the finest British watercolour painters Peter DeWint (1784-1849) captured the landscape scene with a spontaneity and richness rivalling Turner in purity of form. His work was praised by such writers as Ruskin Thackeray and the nature poet John Clare who in his projected Essay on Landscape Painting wrote that ‘the only artist who produces real English scenery in which British landscapes are seen and felt upon paper with all their poetry and exillerating [sic] expression of beauty about them is DeWint… admirers of nature will admire his paintings for they are her autographs and not a painter’s studys [sic] from the antique…’ Although DeWint is accepted as one of the masters of British Romantic painting this is the first monograph to be published since 1888. DeWint is an elusive figure whose pictures are frequently misattributed partly because he refused to sign or date his work and partly because he enjoyed one of the largest teaching practices of his day resulting in a number of competent imitators. This book has an extensive reference section which includes details of exhibited works the contents of his studio sale the purchasers and prices of works sold during his lifetime a catalogue of pictures in public collections and a reprint of his wife’s Memoir. (MP)