Description

C19th oil-on-canvas painting of Italian landscape scene by Penry Williams . Scene in the Campagna ,Rome , looking towards the Alban Hills with the Claudian Aquaduct running across the hinter land. The foreground with genre scene of goat-herder and a shelter ,together with a woman in traditional dress playing with a child. Signed and dated "Penry Williams ROME 1850" lower left. The reverse with label attached "No1/Scene in the Campagna of Rome looking toward the Alban mount, the Claudian Aquaduct etc/ the property of Viscount Canning by Penry Williams" .
Penry Williams (British ,1798-1885) was a Welsh-born artist who painted and lived in Rome from the 1820s, where he painted typical Roman and Italian scenes in the traditional style. The picture has been professionally cleaned and lined in the last 20 years. In original carved gilt-wood and gesso frame with gilded slip.
A picture of similar size,subject matter and composition by the artist is held in the collection of The National Museum of Wales , Cardiff. Dated 1862. (See www.bbc.co.uk/your paintings) The Victoria Art Gallery in Bath also has a comparable example.
Provenance: Viscount Canning ,Lady May Beaumont ,Duchess of Roxburgh. (Documentary proof/letter of provenance available)
Exhibited Royal Academy , 1850, no.203.
W 37" x H 16" (canvas)
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