John Collet Grey Wash Watercolour Drawing A Lady And Gentleman Walking In A Pleasure Garden Circa.1760 Louis Wain Henry Thomas Alken 1785-1851

Henry Thomas Alken 1785-1851

John Nixon was an amateur artist best known for his humorous sketches

Charcoal heightened with chalk on buff paper

born in Heidelberg

he studied under Sir Benjamin West at the Royal Academy Schools and in 1782 he began exhibiting at the Royal Academy

John Collet Grey Wash Watercolour Drawing A Lady And Gentleman Walking In A Pleasure Garden Circa.1760 Louis Wain Henry Thomas Alken 1785-1851John Collet 1725 1780. British School 18th. Century. Grey wash watercolour drawing. A study of a lady and gentleman walking in a pleasure garden. Dateable to Circa. 1760. Provenance: with William Drummond London. 18 by 14. 5 cms to mounted image. 33 by 30 cms overall framed. John Collet was a painter of mainly genre and low life subjects. He studied at the St. Martin's Lane Academy and was pupil of Lambert. He was seen as the natural successor to