Provenance:
P & D Colnaghi, London, circa 1955
Private Collection

Exhibited:
Marlborough Fine Art, Edward Seago Memorial Exhibition, December 1974, no. 6

In 1950 Queen Mary gave Seago a book of drawings of Windsor by the great watercolourist Paul Sandby. Sandby had been commissioned to produce a series of works depicting the landscapes of the Royal Estates at Windsor in 1752. This record of historic pictures, together with his blossoming friendship with the royal family, may have inspired Seago to make a trip to Windsor to work on some of his own visions of the great Castle. A smaller study Seago painted of the subject, is inscribed 'finish sky less stormy' on the reverse, perhaps aware of King George VI's remark when presented with John Piper's series of the Castle: 'You seem to have had very bad luck with your weather, Mr Piper'. Here, in the completed oil, Seago appears not to have heeded his own advice as the sky still holds the threatening cumulus clouds of a storm not far passed over the great Castle.

Price is subject to Artist's Resale Right.