PAUL SANDBY, R.A. (1731-1809)
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PAUL SANDBY, R.A. (1731-1809)
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Pandy Pen Machno
1796
bodycolour on paper
26 x 32.5 cm
P.86
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Llanrwst is in the Conwy Valley about five miles north of Bettws-y-Coed on the A470. Sandby made several sketching tours in Wales and, according to Iolo Williams, it was he who 'broadly speaking opened the eyes of Englishmen to the pictorial interest of Wales'. His first visit was to accompany Sir Watkin Williams Wynn to his seat at Wynnsaty in 1769 or 1770. According to his son, Sandby later travelled in Wales, probably in the 1770s, with Sir Joseph Banks, Daniel Charles Solander and John Lightfoot, exhibiting his first watercolour of a Welsh subject in 1773. EJ PROVENANCE: J. Leger & Sons, from whom purchased by Gallery, 1952. EXHIBITIONS: English Watercolours from the Hickman Bacon Collection, Bedford, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, 1952, no.66 as Pandy Pei, Machno; Watercolours and Drawings from The Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford, London, Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd, 1962, no.12; Paintings and Drawings by Thomas and Paul Sandby, Reading, Reading Museum & Art Gallery, Bolton, Bolton Museum & Art Gallery, 1972, no.99 as Pandy Bei Machno, Nr.Llanwrst. Copyright © Trustees of Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford. Extract taken from Watercolours and Drawings, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery by Evelyn Joll. |
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