Louise Rayner - Castle Street, Salisbury

Price Realized
£8,125

signed 'Louise Rayner' (lower right) and with inscription 'Castle Street/Salisbury/Louise Rayner' (on the reverse of the backboard)
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic heightened with touches of bodycolour, on paper
15½ x 23½ in. (39.4 x 59.7 cm.)

Lousie Rayner specialised in depicting the old streets and alleys of British towns. Her watercolours create a vivid portrait of metropolitan life with ordinary citizens going about their everyday business. In the 1870s and 80s, Rayner spent a couple of months each summer in different British towns and cities. It was during this period that Rayner visited Salisbury and painted the current watercolour of Castle Street, a main thoroughfare for travellers going to and from the north of Salisbury.

A similar view of Castle Street by Rayner, which sold in these Rooms, 4 November 1994, lot 16, is now in the collection of Salisbury Museum.

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