Charles Rolt - Sabina borne up by the Water Nymph 1844

Artist: Charles Rolt (fl. 1844-1867)
Title: "Sabina borne up by the Water Nymph”
Medium: Pencil, pen ink and watercolour heightened with white
Size: 135 x 235mm
Signed: yes, and dated 1844
Framed, mounted & glazed

Notes: Rolt painted this artwork in 1844, a year later William Edward Frost painted a similar painting “Sabrina and the Nymphs”, this hangs in the Leicester art gallery. Frost’s painting was done as a print by Peter Lightfoot.
According to the ‘The Royal Academy of Arts a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904’ by Graves Algernon; in 1849 Rolt exhibited a painting at the Royal Academy, “342 Sabrina in the hall of Nereus. " The Water nymphs, that in the bottom played. Held up their pearled wrists and took her in, Bearing her straight to aged Nereus' hall, etc." Comus.”