Lot 575: Andrew Benjamin Lens, British c.1713-c.1779- "A

Andrew Benjamin Lens, British c.1713-c.1779- "A View of the City of London from This Side York Buildings 1740"; watercolour in monochrome, within ink drawn lines, signed and titled, bears collectors blind stamp bottom left, 24x34cm: Note: The foreground paintings showing figures walking in the grounds, in the centre of the scene appears to be the an artist making a sketch, presumably a self portrait of the artist A B Lens sketching this view. A B Lens son of the miniature portrait painter Bernard Lens 1682-1740.