Tunbridge Wells, 1847, watercolour over pencil, heightened with touches of white bodycolour, signed lower left, 'Tunbridge Wells JM. 1847.', 33 x 50.5 cm (13 x 20 ins) mount aperture, framed and glazed, with Fry Gallery, 58 Jermyn Street, St. James's, London label to verso, and original purchase receipt from the Fry Gallery for D.A. Hall, dated 1st March, 1984, with photograph contained in an envelope also attached to verso Provenance: Fry Gallery; Collection of D.A. Hall, Camberley, Surrey. John Middleton was born in Norwich, and as a boy learned from John Berney Ladbrooke and Joseph Stannard By the age of 20, the Norfolk Chronicle already referred to him as 'one of the most rising young artists of the day' (11 December 1847). He moved to London in 1847 and exhibited at the Royal Academy and British Institution, returned to live in Norwich in 1849, and tragically died from consumption at the age of just 29. (1)
Tunbridge Wells, 1847, watercolour over pencil, heightened with touches of white bodycolour, signed lower left, 'Tunbridge Wells JM. 1847.', 33 x 50.5 cm (13 x 20 ins) mount aperture, framed and glazed, with Fry Gallery, 58 Jermyn Street, St. James's, London label to verso, and original purchase receipt from the Fry Gallery for D.A. Hall, dated 1st March, 1984, with photograph contained in an envelope also attached to verso Provenance: Fry Gallery; Collection of D.A. Hall, Camberley, Surrey. John Middleton was born in Norwich, and as a boy learned from John Berney Ladbrooke and Joseph Stannard By the age of 20, the Norfolk Chronicle already referred to him as 'one of the most rising young artists of the day' (11 December 1847). He moved to London in 1847 and exhibited at the Royal Academy and British Institution, returned to live in Norwich in 1849, and tragically died from consumption at the age of just 29. (1)
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