John Varley (British, 1778-1842)
Gatehouse at Morpeth, Northumberland 1811

titled and dated '1811' (on the mount)
watercolour
Unframed: 19 x 26 cm. (7 1/2 x 10 in.) Framed: 37 x 44 cm. (14 1/2 x 17 1/4 in.)

With Trinity Fine Art, London, no. 697, according to label verso
With Leger Galleries, Bond Street, London, December 1967
Theodora Gertrude Winter (née Barlow) (1912-2003)
Thence by descent to the present owner

A very similar composition exists as part of the National Galleries of Scotland collection, accession number: D 4779.

Theodora Gertrude Winter (née Barlow) was the daughter of Sir Thomas Dalmahoy Barlow (1883-1964), a British businessman, banker, and art collector and historian. In 1936, she married Carl Winter (1906-1966), a British art historian and museum curator. He worked at the Victoria & Albert Museum's collection of English watercolours and miniature portraits before becoming a director and Morley Curator at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge in 1946. He published Elizabethan Miniatures in 1943 and The British School of Miniature Portrait Painters in 1948.