Three Classical Female Figure Studies - Rafael Valls

Medium

Pen and Sepia Wash on Paper

Status

In Gallery Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-150466

This sketch came from an album of 44 drawings by William Lock (or Locke), some of which are inscribed with dates from the 1780s. Many of these sketches depict scenes from classical mythology, history or the theatre. The album remained in the family of William Gilpin, an early tutor of Lock and a family friend, until the early 2010s. William Lock the Younger was a draughtsman of the early Romantic school working in the circle of Henry Fuseli in Rome and London. He was the eldest son of the noted collector and connoisseur William Lock of Norbury, a patron of George Barret, Thomas Lawrence, Richard Wilson and Henry Fuseli. The young Lock became a close friend and protégé of Henry Fuseli and took lessons from him. Indeed, the latter was a frequent visitor to the Lock family home Norbury Park in Surrey and dedicated his lectures on painting to his promising young pupil.