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Alice Boyd (fl.1860-1897)
The Church of St Clemente, Venice
signed with monogram and dated June 1873,
and signed and inscribed on original label on the reverse,
oil on canvas
25 x 19in. (63.5 x 48.2cm)
Probably taken from a sketch made in the summer of 1873 when Alice Boyd visited Italy for the first time in a party which also included Bell Scott and his wife, William Michael Rossetti, and Madox Brown's daughter Lucy. They stopped at Venice on the way home. The Romanesque Chruch of S Clemente is situated on an island south of Venice, from which, according to Ruskin, 'the view of the city is particularly beautiful'. In making this record Alice Boyd was perhaps thinking of her famous relation Sarah Losh (1785-1853), who had studied medieval architecture in Italy and designed the remarkable Romanesque Church at Wreay, near Carlisle.
The Church of St Clemente, Venice
signed with monogram and dated June 1873,
and signed and inscribed on original label on the reverse,
oil on canvas
25 x 19in. (63.5 x 48.2cm)
Probably taken from a sketch made in the summer of 1873 when Alice Boyd visited Italy for the first time in a party which also included Bell Scott and his wife, William Michael Rossetti, and Madox Brown's daughter Lucy. They stopped at Venice on the way home. The Romanesque Chruch of S Clemente is situated on an island south of Venice, from which, according to Ruskin, 'the view of the city is particularly beautiful'. In making this record Alice Boyd was perhaps thinking of her famous relation Sarah Losh (1785-1853), who had studied medieval architecture in Italy and designed the remarkable Romanesque Church at Wreay, near Carlisle.