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A capriccio landscape with travellers below a rocky outcrop
Lot Closed
December 5, 03:30 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
William Hodges, R.A.
London 1744 - 1797 Brixham, Devon
A capriccio landscape with travellers below a rocky outcrop
oil on plastered canvas, laid down on board
unframed: 118.8 x 177.6 cm.; 46 3/4 x 70 in.
framed: 136.2 x 195 cm.; 53 5/8 x 76 3/4 in.
In her catalogue raisonné of Hodges' work of 1979, the American art historian Isabel Combs Stuebe concluded that Hodges painted more than 600 oils over the course of his lifetime, and of these only about a 150 are recorded and located today. The present landscape has only recently been discovered, with no known history as yet, and even more curious for the medium on which it is painted, evidently the only known 'fresco' by the artist. It was almost certainly intended to fit into a specific space, inset into a wall or stairwell.