Exhibitions: Museums and Galleries, Art Dealers, Auction Houses

A Small Collection of Pictures and Drawings Selected with Great Judgment by the Late Mr. W. B. Tiffin

Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods

Reference: Christie’s, 28 May 1877

Walter Benjamin Tiffin (1795–1877) was a leading dealer who sold an important group of watercolours by Girtin to George Wyndham Girtin (1836–1912).

Lugt, Catalogues, no.37521

Copy consulted: National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

  • 100 – ‘Ripon Cathedral, from the river’. Bought by ‘Permain’ for £16 16s
  • 101 – ‘A river scene: a city in the distance – signed and dated 1805’. Bought by ‘Agnew’ for £23 2s
  • 102 – 'A river scene, with a bridge: evening’. Bought by ‘Permain’ for £23 2s