An extensive wooded river landscape with an amorous couple making music under a tree

Details

Paul Sandby, R.A. (Nottingham 1725-1809 London)
An extensive wooded river landscape with an amorous couple making music under a tree
signed and dated 'P Sandby Pinx 1771' (on a rock, lower left)
oil on panel
18¾ x 24¾ in. (47.6 x 61.9 cm.)

Provenance

with John Mitchell & Sons, London.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 11 April 1980, lot 75.
with the Ruskin Gallery, Stratford-on-Avon.

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Lot Essay

Paul Sandby was a founder member of the Royal Academy and Society of Artists. Unusually for the period, he specialised in landscape painting, helping to re-establish the genre in Britain as an important aesthetic for the next generation of landscape painters. He often worked in gouache and watercolour, as well as oil.

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