#MC48
Ca. 1877
Four watercolours each ca. 18 x 24 cm (7 x 9.5 in). Two mounted, all four titled and additionally (later) captioned "by W. Kempson c. 1877." Mounts are mildly foxed but watercolours in very good condition.
The four attractive and skillfully executed watercolours are titled: Hampstead Heath - Harrow in Distance; "Spaniard's Road" - Hampstead Heath; Fields in S. Hampstead; Hampstead Church (St John-at-Hampstead opened 1747) from Frognal. The famous English Romantic landscape painter John Constable (1776-1837) also painted a series of paintings of Hampstead Health which perhaps served as an inspiration for these watercolours.