ATTRIBUTED TO FREDERICK NASH RWS (1782-1856)

ATTRIBUTED TO FREDERICK NASH RWS (1782-1856)
'A Procession in Westminster Abbey, Looking East From Behind the Choir Screen'
watercolour with pencil, highlighted with bodycolour
65 x 55cm

Nash's first picture, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1800, had been a drawing of the 'North Entrance of Westminster Abbey', and it was a location that he returned to on numerous occasions. Nash is recorded as having painted a further view of the Abbey's interior in 1811 and a 'repetition of the same subject' (1) in 1824, the latter measuring c.110 x 90cm. This was exhibited on several occasions at the conversaziones of the RWS and at the Burlington Fine Arts Club and was owned by Sir Thomas Lawrence who later sold it to Sir Thomas Baring. Mention is made of a Westminster interior in 1827; a smaller work than the present one is in the collection of the Yale Centre for British Art (Acc. No. B1975.3.1063); finally Nash wrote in 1855, the year before his death, to John Mogford (then organiser of the Crystal Palace Exhibition) wondering if a drawing of his of Westminster Abbey was too large and required reframing.
Sold for £680

Condition report:
Some time staining. Unexamined out of frame.
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