Old Masters, British & European Paintings - Day 1 - 11th August 2021

Lot 421

George Garrard ARA (1760-1826)

Estimate £500 - £800 | Hammer £5500

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Description

George Garrard ARA (1760-1826)

Hyde Park from the artist's painting room window at Knightsbridge; Tring Hill

Two, both inscribed with titles and dated 1793 and 1791 respectively to labels cut from original mounts

Both oil on card

14 x 19.1cm; 5½ x 7½in; 12.1 x 19cm; 4¾ x 7½in (2)

Provenance:

Both originally in an album inscribed Studies from nature by G. Garrard;

Mr Nicholson, Oxford, from whom acquired by Edward Croft-Murray in 1942;

From the collection of Edward Croft-Murray (1907-1980)

Exhibited:

'Hyde Park' in London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Paintings from Nature: The Tradition of Openair Oil Sketching, 1980, cat. no.40