The Virginia and George Ablah Collection of British Watercolors

The Virginia and George Ablah Collection of British Watercolors

From 1775 to the beginning of the 20th century a revolutionary movement occurred in the development of watercolor painting in Britain. It took the form of a rise of an independent class of professional watercolor painters as well as major technical and stylistic advancements.

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George Barret the Younger (1767-1842), Classical Landscape, ca. 1820, watercolor over graphite on paper, Wichita Art Museum, Museum Purchase, The Virginia and George Ablah British Watercolor Purchase Fund, 1985.19

John Francis Salmon (attributed to) (ca.1814-1886), Coastal View Off Portland, Dorset, ca. 1879, watercolor over graphite, fragments of varnish, paper, Museum Purchase, The Virginia and George Ablah British Watercolor Purchase Fund, 1981.17

Richard Bankes Harraden (attributed to) (1778-1862), Apse of Westminster Abbey, watercolor on paper, Wichita Art Museum, Museum Purchase, The Virginia and George Ablah British Watercolor Purchase Fund, 1985.23

William Henrey O.W.S. Hunt (1790-1864), Still Life with Fruit, watercolor and gouache on wove paper, Wichita Art Museum, Museum Purchase, The Virginia and George Ablah British Watercolor Purchase Fund, 1985.30

Thomas Girtin (1775-1802), Romantic Landscape, 1798, watercolor, graphite, paper, Wichita Art Museum, Museum Purchase, The Virginia and George Ablah British Watercolor Purchase Fund, 1985.45