Study of a Tree

George Richmond

possibly 1848 · Watercolor · Drawings and Prints

This fresh watercolor study of foliage may have been made during a family holiday to Guildford (a similar landscape of Mickleham Downs, now at Eton College, is dated 1848 and inscribed “Sketched in company with my dear friend Samuel Palmer”). Palmer and Richmond had been close since the 1820s and the present watercolor recalls nature studies both made during their heady Shoreham days as young unmarried members of “The Ancients.”

Artist

George Richmond

Date

possibly 1848

Medium

Watercolor

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013