John Collet Grey Wash Watercolour Drawing A Lady And Gentleman Walking In A Pleasure Garden Circa.1760 Louis Wain literature

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John Collet Grey Wash Watercolour Drawing A Lady And Gentleman Walking In A Pleasure Garden Circa.1760 Louis Wain literatureJohn Collet 1725 1780. British School 18th. Century. Grey wash watercolour drawing. A study of a lady and gentleman walking in a pleasure garden. Dateable to Circa. 1760. Provenance: with William Drummond London. 18 by 14. 5 cms to mounted image. 33 by 30 cms overall framed. John Collet was a painter of mainly genre and low life subjects. He studied at the St. Martin's Lane Academy and was pupil of Lambert. He was seen as the natural successor to