James Webb,  British 1825/35-1895-  View of the Louvre from the banks of t

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James Webb, British 1825/35-1895- View of the Louvre from the banks of the Seine, Paris; oil on canvas, signed and inscribed 'James Webb Paris' (lower centre, to a plank of wood), bears label with partially indistinct inscription 'PARIS IN[?] 1868 painted for / ...[?] Esq. / BY JAMES WEBB' attached to the central stretcher bar, 45.7 x 81.3 cm. (unframed). Provenance: with Robert T. Kruppe, Senior. Gift from the above to the Elmhurst Art Museum; The Elmhurst Art Museum, sold to benefit the Acquisitions and Conservation Fund; sale, Christie's, New York, 15 December 2015, lot 387 ($10,000). Private Collection, UK. Note: Webb studied under Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (1793-1867) and, like his teacher, became best-known as a highly skilled marine painter. He travelled widely across Europe, depicting the landscapes he encountered in Spain, Germany, and The Netherlands, and even as far afield as Istanbul, then Constantinople. A strikingly similar version of an almost identical view of the Louvre is in the collection of the Sheffield Museums [VIS.1469].