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Landscape with a Distant Country House before 1819
Oil on canvas | 88.0 x 113.7 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 404523
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Sir William Elford was a lawyer, banker, politician and collector as well as amateur artist. He was in the habit of exhibiting his work at the Royal Academy (this work may the 'Landscape' shown there in 1819, no. 176) and presenting it examples to institutions and distinguished collectors: an inscription of this back of this canvas reports that it was presented to George IV in August 1819. This kind of background information would usually introduce a work of far less quality that this landscape, with its fresh and subtle observation of the effect of a rainy Devon day. The light and effect of moist air is rendered with a precise and professional-looking technique. The motif cannot be confidently identified but may be near Sheepstor.
Provenance
Presented to the Prince Regent by the artist in 1819; added to the Carlton House inventories dated 1816 (no 565) and 1819 (no 561); taken to Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Park in 1823; in Windsor Castle in 1858 (Room 179)
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Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas
Measurements
88.0 x 113.7 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
118.9 x 145.7 x 14.1 cm (frame, external)
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Alternative title(s)
Landscape in South Devon (?)