Study of a tree

George Richmond British

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This fresh watercolor study of foliage may have been made during a family holiday to Guildford (a similar landscape of Mickleham Downs, now at Eton College, is dated 1848 and inscribed “Sketched in company with my dear friend Samuel Palmer”). Palmer and Richmond had been close since the 1820s and the present watercolor recalls nature studies both made during their heady Shoreham days as young unmarried members of “The Ancients.”

Study of a tree, George Richmond (British, Brompton 1809–1896 London), Watercolor

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