Lot 779: Reverend Orfeur William Kilvington (1780 - 1854),

Reverend Orfeur William Kilvington (1780 - 1854), collection of works - early 19th century watercolours, pencil sketches and pen and ink studies to include views of churches, Rokeby, Puttenham, Godalming and others, also many recognisable Yorkshire landscapes, Wharfdale, Thornton Force and others - mostly inscribed and dated, some framed but mostly unframed in folio, together with some other works of the same period - approximately 110. Reverend Kilvington was born in Dulwich in 1780, he began his career as a regimental chaplain during the Napoleonic wars and served in Portugal, Spain, the Waterloo campaign and also in Colchester (1815). He married The Honourable Maria Napier and was Vicar of Brignall, Yorkshire between 1816 - 1854, he died in Hatfield, Doncaster in 1854. A collection of 53 of his pictures of Sewerby and Bridlington painted between 1820 and 1850 are displayed at the East Riding of Yorkshire Museum at Sewerby Hall