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Portrait painter, Landscape painter, Miniature painter

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      • Lake District.- Holland (Peter) Sketches of the Lakes, an album containing 62 original watercolour studies, [c. 1771]; together with Holland's 'Select Views of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmoreland, …
        Nov. 25, 2021

        Lake District.- Holland (Peter) Sketches of the Lakes, an album containing 62 original watercolour studies, [c. 1771]; together with Holland's 'Select Views of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmoreland, …

        Est: £1,000 - £1,500

        Lake District.- Holland (Peter, Liverpool-based artist who exhibited at the Royal Academy, active c. 1781 to 1812) Sketches of the Lakes, an album containing 62 original watercolour studies of lakes, waterfalls, bridges, and sites of natural interest, including the 'Bowder Stone in Barrowdale, Cumberland', many of which appear to have been used as designs for aquatints engraved by C. Rosenberg in a scarce publication of the same name (see second item), pen and ink title page 'Sketches of the Lakes by Peter Holland', 3 pp. with pen and ink numbered list, each with title identifying location, all on uniform laid paper with watermarks of the letters 'VDL', each leaf approx. 160 x 210 mm (6 1/4 x 8 1/4 in), all with ruled brown ink borders, marginal inscriptions and number to upper right corner of each, occasional minor spotting and browning, some surface dirt, owner's ink inscription to front free endpaper and bookplate to front pastedown, minor worm damage to front pastedown and first few leaves, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, blind tooled, gilt, scuffed and rubbed, worn, oblong 8vo, 1771; together with Holland's Select Views of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire from drawings made by P. Holland, engraved by C. Rosenberg, title, 21 aquatints, each with accompanying descriptive text leaf, scattered browning throughout, some surface dirt, stitched binding loose in places, a few leaves coming loose, blue paper wrappers, oblong 4to, printed by James Smith, for John Peeling, 1772 (2) Provenance: [Album of watercolours] Daniel Daulby, Liverpool (Liverpool brewer, prints and drawings collector, author of a catalogue of Rembrandt's etchings in 1796, died 1799); probably his posthumous sale Liverpool, 12 August 1799 and 8 following days (T. Vernon); Private collection, Cumbria. [Aquatints] Henry Swainson Cowper (1865-1941); Private collection, Cumbria. ⁂ Holland exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1781, 1782, and 1793, and in the latter exhibition the artist included 2 landscapes of Cumberland subjects. He also exhibited at the 'Second Exhibition of the Society for Promoting Painting and Design in Liverpool' in 1787, where he exhibited alongside paintings by Fuseli, Gainsborough, Reynolds and Stubbs. [see E. Rimbault Dibdin, Liverpool Art and Artists in the Eighteenth Century, The Walpole Soc., vol. 6, p. 85].

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      • P. Holland, Oil. Veranda Steps.
        Nov. 18, 2018

        P. Holland, Oil. Veranda Steps.

        Est: $400 - $600

        Oil on Panel. Signed lower right, P. Holland. 10" H x 8" W. Guest House Guest Suite 2. NO RESERVE. This lot was formerly the property of well-known real estate developer Mr. Melvin Simon and his wife, Bren Simon. It is part of the Simon's Asherwood Estate which Mrs. Simon most graciously has gifted to the non-profit Great American Songbook Foundation on whose behalf it is being sold.

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