Lot 1449
WILLIAM CALLOW, RWS (1812-1908)
PADUA: THE MARKET PLACE AND PALAZZO REGIONE
Signed, watercolour and pencil
32.5 x 48.5cm.
* Callow first visited Italy in 1840. Having been `almost stifled with heat and dust` in Verona, Callow spent a few days in Padua en route to Venice. He was enchanted by the city's architecture `with its arcaded streets and two remarkable churches` and he made several studies. A similarly sized version of this subject is in the collection of Eton College and another smaller example (21 x 29.8cm) was sold at Christies London (December 10th 2008, lot 45). The artist certainly returned to the city in 1879 as there is a dated view of Padua's market place in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Callow exhibited three watercolours of Padua in 1853, 1855 and 1860 (the last at The Royal Academy, no.343)
