William Hamilton YATMAN
(London 1819 - Bournemouth 1913)
Two Star Corals
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Watercolour, over a pencil underdrawing, within a drawn border in black ink.
220 x 318 mm. (8 5/8 x 12 1/2 in.) [sight]
220 x 318 mm. (8 5/8 x 12 1/2 in.) [sight]
By profession a barrister, William Hamilton Yatman was an amateur artist about whom relatively little is known. He was educated at Winchester College and at Caius College, Cambridge, for whom he rowed in the Boat Race in 1839. Yatman was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1840 and called to the bar four years later. He served as a Justice of the Peace in Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Warwickshire, and in 1864 acquired Highgrove House, near Tetbury, now the country home of the Prince of Wales.
Provenance
Albany Gallery, London, in 1983
Private collection, until 2011.
Exhibition
London, Albany Gallery, An Exhibition of 19th Century Watercolour Drawings of Sea Shells from the Indian, Pacific and Mediterranean Oceans, December 1983, no.2.