The Villa d'Este, Tivoli
Oil Painting
1842 (exhibited)
1842 (exhibited)
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A closely related but slightly larger (45.7 x 32.4cm./18 x 12 3/4 ins.) oil painting of the same view by Edward Lear (1812-1888), dated 1840 and 1841, and perhaps painted in 1841 on the basis of a drawing done the previous year, was offered for sale at Christies, New York, Old Master Paintings, part I, 25 January 2012, lot 58. That composition was also used by Lear to illustrate Tennyson's poem 'The splendour falls on castle walls'. Lear and Collins were probably in contact with one another in Italy in 1837-8.
Object details
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| Title | The Villa d'Este, Tivoli (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Oil on panel |
| Brief description | Oil painting entitled 'The Villa d'Este, Tivoli' by William Collins. British School, 1842. |
| Physical description | Oil on panel entitled 'The Villa d'Este, Tivoli'. |
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| Gallery label | William Collins saw the Renaissance Villa d'Este near Rome, celebrated for its spectacular gardens, when he made a tour of Italy in the 1830s. In his memoirs of Collins, his son (the novelist Wilkie Collins) described this painting as depicting 'the famous avenue of cypresses, four hundred years old… executed with great vigour and brilliancy'.(5.1.2009) |
| Credit line | Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857 |
| Object history | Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857 |
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| Summary | A closely related but slightly larger (45.7 x 32.4cm./18 x 12 3/4 ins.) oil painting of the same view by Edward Lear (1812-1888), dated 1840 and 1841, and perhaps painted in 1841 on the basis of a drawing done the previous year, was offered for sale at Christies, New York, Old Master Paintings, part I, 25 January 2012, lot 58. That composition was also used by Lear to illustrate Tennyson's poem 'The splendour falls on castle walls'. Lear and Collins were probably in contact with one another in Italy in 1837-8. |
| Bibliographic reference | Parkinson, R., Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 34 |
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| Accession number | FA.24[O] |
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| Record created | April 18, 2007 |
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