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On the Thames at Barnes

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Date

1774

Artist

Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (c. 1733-1794)

Collection

Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

Description

Pen and grey ink and watercolour heightened with bodycolour on laid paper with pen and ink border. Grimm was born in Bergdorf, Switzerland and moved to Paris in 1765 before relocating to London in the spring of 1768 where he remained for the rest of his life. In the first years of his life in London, he produced a number of views on the Thames and its environs.
This is a view looking north from near Barnes Terrace towards Chiswick with the church of St. Nicholas visible in the distance. A drawing of the same size `Between Chiswick and Brentford, by the Thames’, also dated 1774, was in the collection of L.G. Duke (see Mary Rotha Clay, Samuel Hieronymous Grimm, 1941, pl. 61 between pp.56 and 57) as was a slightly larger drawing `Boys Bathing at Barnes’ (op. cit.). A sketchbook in the British Museum (1919.7.12.25) includes views of Brentford, Barnes, Fulham and Kew and Grimm also drew a number of views at Mortlake (‘Mortlake Fair’ was sold at Christie’s on 10th July 2012, lot 54).

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image © Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

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The Terrace, Barnes, London, England

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