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Buildings in Naples with the North-East side of the Castel Nuovo

JONES, Thomas (1742-1803 Thomas Jones, a pupil of Richard Wilson, came from a wealthy landowning family in Radnorshire. During his lifetime he was known as a painter of landscapes and history paintings in the style of his master, but today he is better known for his oil sketches of Italy and Wales. Daeth Thomas Jones, oedd yn un o ddisgyblion Richard Wilson, o deulu o dirfeddiannwyr cyfoethog yn Sir Faesyfed. Yn ystod ei fywyd cafodd ei adnabod fel peintiwr tirluniau a pheintiadau hanesyddol yn null ei feistr, ond heddiw mae’n fwy adnabyddus am ei frasluniau olew o’r Eidal a Chymru)

This is the first of the Neapolitan studies with which Thomas Jones made his deeply original contribution to the oil sketch tradition. He painted it from the roof terrace of his lodgings opposite the Dogana del Sale in Naples.

Beyond the apartment buildings festooned with drying laundry are the wall and tower of the 13th century Castel Nuova, to the left, and part of the roofline of the Palazzo Reale, to the right. The trees of the Largo del Castello stand between them, and the domes of two churches and the lantern of a third animate the horizon.

Examination with infra-red light has revealed extensive pencil underdrawing, with which Jones sketched the principal architectural forms.

Buildings in Naples with the North-East side of the Castel Nuovo
Image: © Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 90

Creation/Production

JONES, Thomas
Date: 1782

Acquisition

Purchase, 2/7/1954

Measurements

Height (cm): 22
Width (cm): 29.1
Height (in): 8
Width (in): 71
h(cm) frame:32.2
h(cm)
w(cm) frame:39
w(cm)
d(cm) frame:5.6
d(cm)

Techniques

oil on paper
Techniques (fine art)
art dept - fine
Fine Art - painting

Material

oil
Paper

Location

In store

Categories

Paentiad | Painting Celf Gain | Fine Art Record to be verified CADP content Tirwedd | Landscape Adeilad | Building Cysylltiad Cymreig | Welsh connection
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