Peter De Wint, O.W.S. (Stone, Staffordshire 1784-1849 London)

Llandaff Cathedral, Wales

Details

Peter De Wint, O.W.S. (Stone, Staffordshire 1784-1849 London)
Llandaff Cathedral, Wales
numbered '258' (verso, according to the Agnew's label)
pencil and watercolour with scratching out, watermark 'WHATMAN 1829'
12 7/8 x 19 ½ in. (32.7 x 49.5 cm.)

Provenance

John Vaughan, 1848.
with Agnew's, London, 1918, where bought by
Walter A. Barrett.
with Agnew's London, 1990.
with Andrew Wyld, London.

Exhibited

London, Old Watercolour Society, 1848, no. 258.
London, Agnew's English Watercolours and Drawings, 1990, no. 60 (as A Ruined Abbey near the Banks of a River, Mountains beyond).
London, Andrew Wyld, Peter de Wint 1874 - 1849, Colourist and countryman, 2005, no. 28.

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Lot Essay

De Wint first visited Glamorgan in 1824. In the present watercolour, De Wint has modified the topography surrounding the ruins to include mountains, which in reality are not there. Furthermore, as Andrew Wyld noted in his catalogue, the artist has 'placed a tree to obscure the rather incongruous classical temple built in the 1740s by John Wood of Bath within the ruined nave' (loc.cit.). De Wint was seeking to emphasise the romantic ruin, particularly as by 1848, extensive building work was underway to restore the cathedral.

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