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An Apple Tree (© British Museum)
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© 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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