Lot 172: Joseph Arthur Palliser Severn, R.I. (Rome 1842-1931 London)

Joseph Arthur Palliser Severn, R.I. (Rome 1842-1931 London)
Clouds over Morecambe Bay, Lancashire
signed and dated 'Arthur Severn R.I./19' (lower left)
watercolour and bodycolour, on paper
10¼ x 14 in. (26 x 35.6 cm.)

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Joseph Arthur Palliser Severn was a friend of John Ruskin (1819-1900), the famous author, critic and artist, whose niece he married in 1881, and with whom he had visited Italy in 1872. Perhaps his most famous work was a portrait of Ruskin as an old man, painted in 1897.