Farmstead, William Tomkins 1730-1792

Name: Farmstead, William Tomkins 1730-1792
SKU: as298a304
Price: 2250.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

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Wonderfully executed oil on copper rural scene by the originator of the picturesque style of 18th Century landscape painting. This is a truly fine work and bears signature to lower left. We believe original frame some very slight loss

11" x 13.5" framed 19.5" x 17"
Very good condition

PROVENANCE
Bonhams, Oxford. Comes with letter confirming by the hand of Tomkins

AUCTION RECORD
£48,000 Sotheby's, London.

Tomkins was born in London. Although he painted animal pictures and still-lives, Tomkins is best known for being one of the first generation of English painters of the picturesque view. His style is a development of the earlier "bird's eye" view tradition of landscape painting, and uses a lower point of view where the emphasis is on strict topographical accuracy. His paintings are therefore of the utmost historical interest, and are seldom sullied by the "romanticisation" of the succeeding generation of English landscape painters who placed considerations of composition ahead of literal accuracy. Tomkins was an Associate of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, but seems to have been itinerant throughout the whole British Isles. Paintings by him from places as far apart as Cornwall and the Highlands of Scotland were abundantly exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Society of Artists, though he seems to have had a penchant for painting in the West Country. Numerous views of the area are known, including a view of Plympton (RA 1780) and a set of four views of Tapeley Park. He seems to have been patronised by the highest levels of society, and is recorded working for Lord Clifford (1772) Viscount Lisburne (1773) Joseph Parker at Saltram House, Devon (1772, now National Trust), Sir Charles Kyme Tynte (1771) and Henry Luttrell at Dunster (1773), the Cecils of Hatfield House (1782), and many other major landowners. He became one of the most favoured painters of landscapes and Gentlemen's Seats of the 18th century.

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