Sidney Richard Percy (1821-1886)

Snowdon

Details

Sidney Richard Percy (1821-1886)
Snowdon
signed and dated 'SR Percy 1853' (lower right)
oil on canvas
41 x 60 in. (104 x 152.3 cm.)

Provenance

with Percy Polak, London, 1968, where probably acquired by the parents of the present owner.

Literature

J. Reynolds, The Williams Family of Painters, Woodbridge, 1975, p. 135.

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Lot Essay

This impressive view of Mount Snowdon in North Wales illustrates Percy's immeasurable talent for depicting monumental landscapes full of depth and atmosphere on a two-dimensional canvas. A related painting, painted in the same year and entitled In Snowdonia, is in Tate Britain.

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