Jean-Baptiste Claude Chatelain, British / French 1710-1758- River landscape with...

Jean-Baptiste Claude Chatelain,
British / French 1710-1758-

River landscape with figures and a hill-top classical building;

pen and ink, watercolour and wash on paper, 16.5 x 22.2 cm.

Provenance:
with The Fry Gallery, Suffolk.
Private Collection, UK.

Note: Draughtsman, etcher and line engraver Jean Baptiste Claude Chatelain (real name Phillipe) was a Frenchman, born in London. He fought at Flanders before specialising in landscape and topographical views. He made prints after works by 17th-century painters as well as contemporary artists, and also after his own drawings. Chatelain worked in London for the engraver and printseller John Boydell (1720-1804), for whom he engraved works by Claude and Poussin, amongst others.