Paris, during the s, with his compatriots Newton Fielding and Thomas Schotter Boys, William Callow learned the basics of what was to become his discipline par excellence : topographical watercolours.
In a long career crowned with success, he crisscrossed Europe in every direction. After his stay in England, he became one of the most eminent members of the Society of Painters in Watercolour, regularly exhibiting works that could be quite large in his mature period. Callow visited Rouen several times, but this view can certainly be linked with the journey he made to Normandy in , when he sailed up the Seine in a steam boat from Le Havre to Rouen. The exceptionally good condition of this large watercolour makes it possible to appreciate the dextrous rendering that made the artist so famous, his colours, warm and cool by turns, and his combination of subtle tonal shading and precise drawing, traced by means of a fine brush.
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