Lot 38: Francis Towne (Middlesex 1739-1816 London)

Francis Towne (Middlesex 1739-1816 London) A blasted pine in the gardens of the Villa Mondragone Gardens, Frascati, Italy signed, inscribed and dated 'Blasted Pine Tree in the Villa Dragona Frascati Francis Towne 1781' (on the verso) pen and grey ink, grey wash 12 x 8 in. (30.5. x 21.6 cm.)

York, City Art Gallery, Watercolours of Francis Towne, January 1950, no. 16. Scarborough, Art Gallery, English Watercolours from Four Yorkshire Houses, 1950, no. 12. London, Arts Council, Three Centuries of British Water-Colours and Drawings, 1951, no. 190.

A. Bury, Francis Towne: Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, London, 1962, p. 140. W.A. Worsley, Early English Water-Colours at Hovingham Hall, Hovingham, 1963, no. 39. T. Wilcox, Francis Towne, London, 1997, p. 86.

J.H. Merivale, and thence by descent. with Agnew's, London, where purchased by Sir William Worsley, 1944 (70 gns), and thence by descent in the family.