An Apple Tree

John Linnell (1792 - 1882)

British Museum

1811

The work is a close-up view of nature and may have been made in the camera obscura Linnell had recently acquired. The artist had started attending a Baptist chapel in 1811 which completely transformed his approach to art and he began to study landscape as the work of a divine Creator. Linnell never painted watercolours for exhibition or sale.

• Medium: watercolour & bodycolour on paper
• Dimensions: 14.9 x 10.1cm
• Art Fund Grant: £16000 ( Total: £32,000)
• ArtFunded in: 2002
• Vendor: Lowell Libson

Provenance

By descent through the family of the artist until 2001; Spink-Leger, 2001; Christie's, 2002; Lowell Libson.

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