Rain clearing off, Thorpe Green (lower left)

Details

Henry Dawson (1811-1878)
Rain clearing off, Thorpe Green (lower left)
signed with initials and dated '18 HD 56' (lower left) and further signed and inscribed 'Rain Clearing off H Dawson Thorpe Green Chertsey' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
36 x 58 in. (91.4 x 147.3 cm.)

Exhibited

London, The British Institution, 1857, no. 82. (as 'Rain clearing off', sold for 130 gns.)
Nottingham, Nottingham University Art Gallery, Henry Dawson (1811-1878), Centenary Exhibition, October-November 1978, no. 39.

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Lot Essay

Dawson's series of rainbow pictures were held in esteem by nineteenth-century critics. The subject had been treated by both Turner and Constable, which may have encouraged Dawson. He executed Rainbow on the Trent in 1850, Rainbow at Sea in 1854 and this painting in 1856, which also bears the title River Scene with Rainbow. The dense wooded banks owe something to Constable; and the revelatory impact of warm sunlight filtering through abating storm clouds recalls Turner. The painting's classicism pays tribute to both English and Dutch traditions of landscape painting.

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