Two ducks on water

John Pitman (fl. 1814 - fl. 1841)

RA Collection: Art

A small pencil and watercolour drawing of two ducks on the water. The ducks are painted in watercolour but the rest of the scene is faintly drawn in pencil.

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