early 19th-century British watercolours, a subject which had been little studied before. In 1996 the Tate Gallery acquired over 3000 artworks from the Oppé collection. Works by Hearne included Linlithgow Castle; Hills, Ships and River; Landscape with Road and Castle; and The Moat in Kent, the Seat of Lord Romney. In February 1966 The Tower of London by Hearne sold for 320 guineas (2011: £). By 1994 a Hearne Leeward Islands panoramic would expect to reach £10,000. In June 2006 Hearne's Rowing on the River Wear Before Lumley Castle was sold at Sotheby's for £19,200. Thomas Hearne's paintings are now owned by many museums and public art galleries across the world, including Tate Britain, the British Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Museum of New Zealand, the Yale Center for British Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, the Harvard Art Museums, the Ashmolean Museum, the Toledo Museum of Art, and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. References Attribution: Further reading Hearne, Thomas: Antiquities of Great-Britain (London: Printed by J. Phillips and published by T. Hearne and W. Byrne, 1786–1807). Graves, Algernon. Dictionary of Artists (London, G. Bell and sons, 1907). Morris, David. Thomas Hearne and his landscape (London: Reaktion Books, 1989). Hargraves, Matthew. Great British Watercolors: From the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale University Press, 2007) p. 38 ff. External links Thomas Hearne online (ArtCyclopedia) Paintings by Thomas Hearne (Tate online) Etchings of works by Hearne (National Maritime Museum) Works by Hearne (Victoria Art Gallery Portrait engraving of Thomas Hearne (V&A) Man Seated On A Fallen Branch On A Woodland Path (Pencil drawing – Art Renewal Center) The Monnow Bridge (swanseaheritage.net) 18th-century English painters English male painters 19th-century English painters English watercolourists English illustrators Landscape artists People from Wiltshire 1744 births 1817 deaths People from Marshfield, Gloucestershire English landscape painters English engravers 18th-century engravers 19th-century engravers 19th-century English male artists 18th-century English male artists