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Lot 386
  • 386

Thomas Hartley Cromek 1809-1873

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Description

  • Thomas Hartley Cromek
  • In the forum, Rome: The remains of the Temple of the Dioscuri and the church of Santa Martina and San Luca beyond
  • watercolour over pencil heightened with scratching out

Catalogue Note

Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth century Rome was a most popular destination for British travellers. Cromek, who had been born in London, spent eighteen years in Rome between 1831 and 1849. While there he achieved great success as a landscape and topographical painter. The present lot, with it's bold and bright colours and large scale, is a good example of the type of work that might have attracted the tourists who came to the Eternal City.