Pont Aberglaslyn

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Wales Office, Gwydyr House, Whitehall

Francis Nicholson was born in Pickering, Yorkshire, but lived in Whitby, Knaresborough and Ripon, before moving to London in around 1803. After studying under local artists in Yorkshire, he spent some 30 years painting portraits and animals, mainly in oil. However, from the mid-1780 he turned to watercolour, sending his watercolour landscapes to Royal Academy exhibitions from 1789 and supplying topographical views to ‘Copper Plate Magazine’. He experimented with different methods and processes of watercolour painting and published ‘The Practice of Drawing and Painting Landscapes from Nature in Watercolour’ (1820). Nicholson was also a popular teacher. In 1804 he became a founder-member of the Society of Painters in Water-Colours.

Places

Aberglaslyn Pass, Wales, Pont Aberglaslyn, Gwynedd, Snowdonia, Afon Glaslyn

Subjects

topography, landscape C19th, dog, gorge, mountain, river bank, river, rock formation, valley, boy, man, woman, bridge (rural), path

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), watercolour (as artists materials), pencil, watercolour (as object name)

Artist

Francis Nicholson (1753 - 1844)

Title

Pont Aberglaslyn

Date

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Dimensions

height: 64.00 cm, width: 77.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Christie's, 14 December 1976

Inscription

S&Insverso

Provenance

Sold through Christie's, London, on 14 December 1976 (Lot 51); from which sale purchased by the Department of the Environment

GAC number

12666