Lot 243: A FOLIO OF DRAWINGS AND WATERCOLOURS

By or attributed to Jean Pillement (Lyon 1728-1808) ; John Collet (London 1725-1780); George Frost (Ipswich 1734-1821); Humphrey Repton (Bury St. Edmunds 1752-1818 London); and others
including views of French Peasants; A Lady Riding on a Country Lane; Study of Trees with a Church Beyond; An Architect's Table; and A Shepherd with his Flock; The Rows at Chester; and others
one pencil with a pen and brown ink border; one watercolour with pen and black ink, on laid paper; one black chalk; one black chalk, heightened with white, on laid paper watermarked with the Strasburg Lily; and one pen and grey ink with grey wash, on laid paper watermarked: IV; each unframed;
the first signed lower left: Jean Pillement / 1794;
the fifth extensively inscribed with artist's notes;
the sixth later inscribed in pencil, lower left: my fathers drawing of Chester; further later inscribed in pencil, lower right: Humphrey Repton / (1752-1818)
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Largest 247 by 359 mm

The third London, Royal Academy, Annual Exhibition, 1776, no 15;
London, The Sabin Galleries, Seventh Annual Exhibition of Old English Watercolour Drawings, 1961, no. 7;
Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Exhibition of English Drawings and Watercolours from a Private Collection, 1971, no. 7;
the fourth London, The Fine Art Society, Thirty-Seventh Exhibition of Early English Water-colours and Drawings, 1957, no. 98;
Essex, Saffron Walden Festival, The East Anglian Landscape, 1960, no. 2;
Suffolk, Ickworth House, Exhibition of Early English Water-colours of the Great Period, 1968, no. 11;
the sixth London, Architectural Association, 1950;London, The Arts Club;
Brighton, Brighton Art Gallery, 1962, no. 88

The sixth J. Hayes, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, London 1970, pl. 380 (as by Thomas Gainsborough)

The first sale, London, Christie's, 18 April 1967, lot 79;
to Walter Brandt;
the third with The Maas Gallery, by 1962, by whom sold in 1962 to  Walter Brandt ;
the fourth Dr. H.A.C. Gregory;
with The Fine Arts Society, London, by 1957, by whom sold in 1957 to Walter Brandt;
the fifth William Fowkes;
thence by descent to his nephew John L. Marks;
his sale, London, Sotheby's, 20 April 1972, lot 40, to Walter Brandt
the sixth Stephen Rowland Pierce (1896-1966);
his sale, London, Sotheby's, 17 October 1968, lot 135, to Walter Brandt