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Frank Brangwyn:
Old Kew Bridge
Framed (ref: 10582)

Watercolour and gouache

Signed, bottom right

21 3/4 x 30 in. (55.2 x 76.2 cm)

Tags: Frank Brangwyn gouache watercolour maritime

Provenance: Christie’s, 20th Century British Art, 2005; Private collection

Brangwyn produced an etching of Kew Bridge, two oils and a further two watercolours, all of which show the length of the bridge in perspective.This viewpoint is unusual, placing the bridge horizontally.

This may be the watercolour recorded in  Bunt (319) which belonged to Sir Percy Thomas, the architect of the Guildhall at Swansea where Brangwyn's British Empire murals now hang. Old Kew Bridge was demolished shortly after 1900, the year of this watercolour, and replaced by a version opened by and named after Edvard VII in 1903.

Old Kew Bridge, London, Leeds Art Gallery, 1901

We are grateful to Dr Libby Horner for assistance