George Price Boyce (1826-1897)

George Price Boyce (1826-1897)
The Orchard at Mapledurham House
Signed and dated G.P.Boyce 1860 (lower right), and inscribed Orchard & Church Mapledurham/G.P.Boyce in May 1860/Sunset about 7 pm (to verso)
Watercolour heightened with gum arabic
19 x 27.7cm; 7½ x 11in

Provenance:
Purchased from the artist by William Debenham, 1861;
Purchased by John Mercer from an antique shop by 1987;
And by family descent

Literature:
Virginia Surtees (ed.), The Diaries of George Price Boyce (1980), p.33;
Christopher Newall and Judy Egerton, George Price Boyce (exh. cat., Tate Gallery, 1987), p.52, no.29 (illustrated)

Exhibited:
London, Tate Gallery, George Price Boyce, August 987, no.29

Mapledurham church can be seen through the trees.