Thomas Colman Dibdin, Returning Home, Evening – mid-19th-century watercolour

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Thomas Colman Dibdin, Returning Home, Evening – mid-19th-century watercolour

An original mid-19th-century watercolour painting, Thomas Colman Dibdin, Returning Home, Evening.

A lovely painting by Thomas Colman Dibdin (1810–1893). The charming rural scene is possibly in Dibdin's native Surrey. The painting technique combines broader washes of colour with fine detail in brown and graphite, giving the work particular atmosphere and sense of aliveness. The warm yellow light and walking figure suggest the mellow calm of evening and returning home.

In watercolour with graphite.

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Details

Signed: Inscribed with artist's name verso.

Height: 18.2cm (7.2″) Width: 28.5cm (11.2″)

Condition: In good condition for its age.Some minor age toning as shown, including faint mount mount towards the periphery of the sheet. Please see photos for detail.

Presented: Unframed.

Thomas Colman Dibdin (1810–1893) was born at Betchworth in Surrey. He worked as a clerk in the General Post Office from the age of seventeen until age twenty-eight, when he changed to pursue a career as an artist. He was a landscape and architectural painter in watercolour, painting subjects that he encountered on his travels in France, Germany and Belgium, as well as England.

Dibdin exhibited from 1831 to 1883, including at the Royal Academy, British Institution, the Society of British Artists, Suffolk Street, and the New Watercolour Society. In 1845 he published a guide to watercolour painting. Later in life he worked at Sydenham College.

His paintings can be found in a number of public collections, including Museums Sheffield, the Museum of London and the Wellcome Collection.

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