© British Museum
An Apple Tree
Artist: John Linnell (1792 - 1882)
Location: British Museum
Date: 1811
Materials: watercolour & bodycolour on paper
Dimensions: 14.9 x 10.1cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £16,000 (Total: £32,000)
Vendor: Lowell Libson
Review number: 5066 (2002)
Provenance:
By descent through the family of the artist until 2001; Spink-Leger, 2001; Christie's, 2002; Lowell Libson.
Description:
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.
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