Lot 191: Stewart Watson (fl.1843-1847)

Buttari driving Roman oxen
signed, inscribed and dated 'Stewart Watson Pinxt Rome 1842' (lower left)
oil on canvas
34 1/2 x 49 1/4 in. (87.6 x 125.1 cm.)

London, Royal Academy, 1843, no. 488.

George Graziado Jun. (1919-2000), founder of the Imperial Bank of California; from whom purchased by
Comerica Bank, 2004.

Watson was born in Edinburgh, but spent much of his working life in Italy. This is one of four pictures, each of Italian subjects, that he submitted to the Royal Academy from London addresses between 1843 and 1845. He also exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists at Suffolk Street.

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