Thomas Miles Richardson, Jun., R.W.S. (Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1813-1890)

Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy

Details

Thomas Miles Richardson, Jun., R.W.S. (Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1813-1890)
Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy
signed and dated 'TM Richardson/1857' (lower left, on a rock) and numbered and inscribed 'N^o.3./"Catanzaro-."/the Capital of Calabria' (on a fragment of the original mount)
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic heightened with touches of white and with scratching out
25½ x 39 in. (64.8 x 99 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 16 November 2006, lot 177, where purchased by the present owner.

Exhibited

Probably London, Royal Society of Painters in Water Colour, 1857, no. 94.

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Lot Essay

In scale and composition, the present watercolour is a very fine example of Richardson's oeuvre. Clearly influenced by the works of romantic landscape watercolourists such as J.M.W. Turner and Copley Fielding, Richardson has depicted the colourful and varied landscape of Italy on an epic sale. The artist made extensive tours of England, Scotland, and the Continent, but Italian subjects remained amongst his favourite.

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