Title: Landscape with Madeley Manor, Stafford

Artist: William Callow RWS (1812 - 1908). Signed and inscribed with date and title Lower Right.

Date: 1842.

Medium: Watercolour.

Condition: Very Good.

Size [Metric]: 25 x 35 cm. With frame: 46 x 56 cm.

Size [Imperial]: 10 x 13.5 in. With Frame: 18 x 22 in

Price: £650

William Callow

One of the great Victorian watercolourists his life is well documented. Callow spent much of his youth abroad but in 1842, the year of this painting, took the lease of a London property.

Jan Reynolds in "William Callow" p. 80 states that 1842 "marked an advance in the establishment of the individual style of Callow although it is still possible to detect a very positive influence from T. S. Boys (Thomas Shooter Boys) in some work from this date."

In 1842 Callow also began giving drawing lessons in England ( in Paris he had been drawing master to the family of Louis Phillippe) - at which he appears to have been very successful. He visited Madeley Manor, Staffordshire twice in order to give lessons to Miss Crewe the sister of Lord Crewe.

A label on back indicates that the painting was displayed at Appleby Bros. St James in its autumn 1965 exhibition.

Callow's works are in museum collections in Bristol, Dublin, London (the Wallace Collection and the V & A), Manchester, Reading and Sydney.