John Reinhard Weguelin, RWS

1849-1927

Illustration for Andersen's "The Marsh King's Daughter"

Ref: 1607

Inscribed with text from the novel

Monochrome watercolour, 22 by 26 cm

Provenance: Neil Campbell Wilson

 

Weguelin was a highly successful painter and illustrator of the late ninenteenth century Neo-Classical style associated with Edward Poynter and J.W.Waterhouse. In 1893 he illustrated a book of Hans Christian Andersen's stories The Little Mermaid and Other Tales in an edition published by Lawrence and Bullen.

 

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