"Samuel Prout. Animated Venetian Composition With The Basilica Of Santa Maria Della Salute. "
Watercolour. 41.5 x 27.5 cm visible, in a 62 x 46.7 cm frame. Sun-exposed sheet and foxing on the marie-louise. Signed in the lower right corner: "SProut". Samuel Prout (1783-1852) was an English painter, watercolourist and lithographer of views and architecture. His works are held in the museums of Birmingham, Leicester, Liverpool, Blackburn, Cardiff, Dublin, London (Victoria and Albert), Manchester, Preston, Sydney, Dieppe… (cf. Bénézit, VII, pp. 38-39). Ref. A13-85