Aaron Edwin Penley, British 1807-1870- Mountainous... Lot 430

Aaron Edwin Penley, British 1807-1870- Mountainous landscape with goats at the edge of a lake; watercolour heightened with scratching out on paper, signed and dated 'A.E.PENLEY-1860' (lower right), 22.2 x 26 cm. Provenance: Roseberys, London, 22 March 2022, lot 101. Private Collection, UK. Note: Penley, not to be confused with his nephew Edwin Aaron Penley (1826-1893), was a prominent watercolourist, serving as watercolour-painter in ordinary to William IV (1765-1837) and his wife, Queen Adelaide (1792-1849). He also authored a number of publications on the medium, including the 'English School of Painting in Watercolours' (1861), 'A System of Watercolour Painting' (1867), and 'Sketching from Nature in Watercolours' (1869). Although he also produced genre scenes, Penley largely produced views of the British countryside, with the present work a classic example of his atmospheric landscapes, with a haziness suggested by the wispy clouds which form around the dramatic cliff face to the centre of the scene.