Edward John Poynter (1836-1919)
Hardraw Force
Watercolour; signed with monogram and dated 1872
9 ¾ x 6 ½ inches
£4,800
Exhibitions
Probably Dudley Gallery, 1874, no 596
Poynter exhibited landscape watercolours throughout his life, first in the Dudley Gallery from the 1860s and then later in the Grosvenor and the New Galleries. They are soft and atmospheric. Hardraw Force, in Wensleydale, is England's largest unbroken waterfall.