Peter De Wint (1784-1849) abandoned plans for a medical career after receiving drawing lessons from a local Staffordshire landscape painter. In 1802 he entered a seven year apprenticeship with the portraitist and engraver John Raphael Smith but only actually served four of these years. De Wint's interests lay in landscape painting and the condition of his early release from the apprenticeship of Smith was that he did 18 landscapes in oil for him. While he exhibited landscapes in oil at both the Royal Academy (13 between 1807 and 1828) and the British Institution (11 between1808 and 1824) he worked mainly in water colour, exhibiting 417 works at the Old Watercolour Society between 1808 and 1849.
The view depicted in this painting has never been identified, nor is the work identifiable with the title of any painting exhibited in the artist's lifetime. It is one of 8 oil paintings by De Wint in the V&A's collection and was bequeathed by the artist's granddaughter, Miss Harriet Helen Tatlock, in 1921.
Physical description
Painting of a landscape with dirt track beginning bottom right of the canvas moving to the left and disappearing with a decline in the landscape. Just before it disappears from view a waggon is visible on the track. Trees in mid-ground and dead tree trunk lying horizontal in the centre foreground.
Place of Origin
England, Great Britain (painted)
Date
ca. 1807-1849 (painted)
Artist/maker
De Wint, Peter, born 1784 - died 1849 (artist)
Materials and Techniques
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 106.2 cm estimate, Width: 163.4 cm estimate
Object history note
Bequeathed by Miss Harriet Helen Tatlock, 1921
Descriptive line
Oil painting on canvas, 'Landscape and Waggon', Peter De Wint, ca. 1807-1849
[Frame dimensions 134 x 190 cm]
Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)
Parkinson, R., Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 70
The following is the full text of the entry:
"DE WINT, Peter (1784-1849)
Born Stone, Staffordshire, 21 January 1784, son of a doctor of Dutch extraction. Pupil of the portraitist in crayons and engraver John Raphael Smith 1802-6; entered RA Schools 1807. Exhibited 13 landscapes and topographical views at the RA between 1807 and 1828 and 11 at the BI 1808-24, but principally watercolours - 417 at the OWS 1808-49. Also worked for engravers of topographical books. Married the sister of his friend William Hilton RA. Lived many years in Lincoln, where the Usher Art Gallery has a fine collection of his work. Many watercolours and drawings also in the V&A collections. Died London 30 June 1849; his studio sale was at Christie's 22-28 May 1850.
LIT: Art Journal 1849, p260 (obit); W Armstrong Memoir of Peter De Wint 1888; H De Wint A Short Memoir ... privately printed c1900, reprinted in Smith; H Smith Peter De Wint 1982 (and for fuller bibliography)
Landscape with Waggon
P56-1921 Neg 36160
Canvas, 106.2 x 163.4 cm (41 13/16 x 64 5/16 ins)
Bequeathed by Miss Harriet Helen Tatlock (the artist's granddaughter) 1921
The view has not been identified, nor is the work identifiable with the title of any painting exhibited in the artist's lifetime. The waggon is of the same type as that depicted in Constable's 'Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows' (exhibited RA 1831, now NG).
EXH: 19th Century English Art New Metropole Arts Centre, Folkestone, 1965 (73); Peter De Wint Agnew 1966 (2)"
Materials
Oil paint; Canvas
Techniques
Oil painting
Subjects depicted
Landscape; Trees; Waggon; Track
Categories
Paintings
Collection code
PDP
