- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- A small Landscape
- Date
- 1775
- Medium
- [?] Oil painting
- Object Type
- Oil painting
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- Catalogue Number
- FT048
- Description Sources
- 1775 Royal Academy (313)
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
Other entries in Exhibited
Francis Towne
A large Landscape, with a Scene in Shakespeare’s Cymberline
A large Landscape, with a Scene in Shakespeare’s Cymberline
Francis Towne
The Wrekin in Shropshire going off of a storm
The Wrekin in Shropshire going off of a storm
Francis Towne
A View on the River Exe, taken near the Seat of Sir Francis Drake, Devonshire
A View on the River Exe, taken near the Seat of Sir Francis Drake, Devonshire
Francis Towne
Chateau de Blonay near Vevey, at the Head of Lake Geneva
Chateau de Blonay near Vevey, at the Head of Lake Geneva
Francis Towne
The Ruins of La Bathia, near Martigny, Switzerland
The Ruins of La Bathia, near Martigny, Switzerland
Francis Towne
A View in Neptune’s Grotto of the Sybil’s Temple at Tivoli
A View in Neptune’s Grotto of the Sybil’s Temple at Tivoli
Francis Towne
View of the Passage over Mount Splugen in the Alps
View of the Passage over Mount Splugen in the Alps
Francis Towne
View near the Chateau de Chillon at the Head of Lake Geneva
View near the Chateau de Chillon at the Head of Lake Geneva
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Comment
Towne had two pictures in the 1775 Royal Academy exhibition, his first showing at the organisation: nos.313, A small landscape after nature, and 314, A small landscape, its companion. It is possible that one of these is the picture that was in Colonel Grant’s collection (FT047), although it is little more than a suggestion. Neither of the exhibits was marked for sale in the catalogue, so perhaps they were commissions from Towne’s Devon customers. Horace Walpole considered 313 “good” and 314 “very natural, free and well coloured”.1 A newspaper critic wrote: “Abstracted from a pou [sic], we think that Mr Town has countryfied these views with some judgement and taste.”2 Towne’s address, as in previous years at the Society of Artists of Great Britain, was given as “At Mr. Pars’s, Percy-Street”.