[Prout, Samuel] Holme, Charles (Editor) / Text By Ernest G. Halton.

Sketches By Samuel Prout in France, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Switzerland [Including: “The Life and Art of Samuel Prout” by Ernest G. Halton”].

London / Paris / New York, The Studio Ltd., 1915. 21 cm x 29.8 cm. Colour Frontispiece protected by tissue guard. 26 pages. With 65 one-sided black-and-white plates following the text. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine and frontcover. Very good and firm condition with only minor signs of external wear. Contains a 19th century reproduction of an A.L.S. by Samuel Prout dated Feb. 14, 1843.

Includes for example the following illustrations: Chartres / Lyons / Brussels / Louvain / Tournai / Igel / Mayence / Bamberg / Ratisbon / Dresden / Prague / Milan / Venice / Rome / Geneva / Sion etc.

Samuel Prout (1783-1852) was a British watercolourist, and one of the masters of watercolour architectural painting. Prout secured the position of Painter in Water-Colours in Ordinary to King George IV in 1829 and afterwards to Queen Victoria. John Ruskin, whose work often emulated Prout’s, wrote in 1844, “Sometimes I tire of Turner, but never of Prout”. Prout is often compared to his contemporaries; Turner, Gainsborough, Constable and Ruskin, whom he taught. He was the uncle of the artist John Skinner Prout. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: Architectural Art · Art · Art History · Art of the 18th Century · Artist · Artists · Catalogue Four – International Art · Drawings
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 200338AB

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