“Noon-Tide, Venice” by Emily Murray Patterson

In his magisterial Dictionary of Scottish Artists (the Best Dictionary of artists I’ve ever found in fifty years of dealing) Peter Mcewan writes:” Her use of of broad, translucent washes produces a luminosity in her treatment of water and the dappled, shifting sunlight of Venice.” This is one of the finest watercolours I’ve had the privilege of handling. It is still in the original fine gilt, swept frame.