Conway Castle from across the Estuary, North Wales
Conway Castle from across the Estuary, North Wales
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PAUL SANDBY, R.A.
Nottingham 1731-1809 London
Conway Castle from across the Estuary, North Wales
Bodycolour on laid paper
200 x 279 mm., 7 ¾ x 11 in.
Stylistically this appears to be an early work in bodycolour by Sandby drawn in the tradition of the Italian landscape artist Marco Ricci whose work Sandby owned (for a similar work, see Luke Herrmann, Paul and Thomas Sandby, 1986, no. 5, p.83, ill.). His first recorded trip to Wales was in 1770 as a guest of his patron Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn so the present work is likely to date from the early 1770s.