A Stream near Clovelly, North Devon

1850

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Middleton belonged to a small group of artists who contributed to a late flowering of the Norwich School of landscape painting around 1850. The artist was just twenty when singled out by the Norfolk Chronicle as "one of the most rising young artists of the day...[distinguished by a]...brilliancy of colouring, charming alteration of light and shade, admirable drawing and grouping." His career was cut sadly short by consumption, leading to his death at age twenty-nine but, in the preceding decade, he produced sparkling works such as this freely washed rendering a country stream bordered by trees made during a summer tour of North Devon in 1850.

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Title: A Stream near Clovelly, North Devon
Artist: John Middleton (British, Norwich 1827–1856 Norwich)
Date: 1850
Medium: Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor) and reductive techniques
Dimensions: Sheet: 19 1/8 × 13 1/8 in. (48.6 × 33.3 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 2018
Object Number: 2018.931
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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