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A Bridge Over the River Trient, Switzerland

image © Guy Peppiatt Fine Art | All Rights Reserved

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Artist

John Warwick Smith (1749-1831)

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Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

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Inscribed with title verso, watercolour over pencil heightened with touches of bodycolour. Smith was the son of a Cumberland gardener and studied under Sawrey Gilpin (1733-1807), another local artist. Gilpin introduced Smith to the Earl of Warwick who paid for his trip to Italy from 1776 until 1781, hence his nickname. Smith passed through Switzerland on his return to England with Francis Towne in the summer of 1781. They left Rome in August and entered Switzerland near Chiavenna travelling up to Lake Walenstadt then headed west to Geneva. From there they travelled south to Chamonix and returned to Geneva via Montreux.
Dated drawings by Towne reveal that they were still in Geneva on 11th September and had reached Vevey on the 20th. They headed north from Geneva and homewards on the 23rd.

The river Trient originates from the Trient Glacier and flows through the village of the same name. Trient is situated a few miles to the south-west of Martigny and north-east of Chamonix near the French-Swiss border. Another view of this bridge, in landscape format, was sold at Christie's South Kensington on 20th May 2015, lot 597.

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image © Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

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River Trient, Switzerland

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