Lot 106: JOHN BAPTISTE MALCHAIR 1731-1817

two, both inscribed with title and dated verso, one: Sept,25-1794-1/2/Tom Tivey's Hole a Cavern in the woods near East Cranmore Sommerset and the other: Bullington Green with Shotover Hill near Oxford/East Cranmore Sept-261794-1/2

TOM TIVEY'S HOLE IN THE WOODS NEAR EAST CRANMORE, SOMERSET; A HOUSE AT EAST CRANMORE, SOMERSET

largest 27.5 by 50.5 cm., 10 3/4 by 20 in.

grey wash over pencil on laid paper, one with a view of Bullington Green and Shotover Hill near Oxford verso, unframed<br>with an unframed watercolour of a figure by a wall, the Ramparts of Bologne by the Reverend Thomas Streatfield (1777-1840)

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John Malchair, eldest son of a watchmaker, was born in Cologne in 1731. Largely self-taught as an artist, he moved to England in circa 1759. He taught drawing and the violin in London, Lewes and then Bristol before moving to Oxford in 1759. There, he taught drawing to undergraduates and had a large number of pupils. Although he had a great attachment to Oxford he toured many of the southern counties such as Herefordshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Somerset where he executed the present drawings. After his death his influence survived through 'The Great School', a society formed by his pupils and of which he had been elected President