A flat landscape with trees

Attributed to John Pitman (fl. 1814 - fl. 1841)

RA Collection: Art

A small pencil drawing of a landscape with trees. This is probably by John Pitman although the inscription reads Petiman.

John Pitman studied at Thomas Baxter's china painting school in Worcester, listing his specialist subject as animal painting and later worked for Flight, Barr and Barr. He exhibited paintings of animals and game at the Worcestershire Society of Arts and the Royal Academy (see file and references).John Homes Smith and his son John Halphead Smith who collected these drawings also worked as porcelain painters