Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding, View Down The River Wye Towards Chepstow Castle, Monmouthshire

Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding, View Down The River Wye Towards Chepstow Castle, MonmouthshireThis mid 19th century watercolour by British artist Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding (1787 1855) depicts a view down the River Wye near Chepstow. If given the opportunity to speak with Copley Fielding, hed tell you that Claude Lorrain, the eminent baroque landscape painter, had composition sewn up. Hed talk through Claudes sketches, passionately extolling their virtuous sun drenched horizons. With equal fervour, hed praise the careful rendering of

She’s dressed in a highly fashionable black frilly blouse

The majority of his works tend to focus on the picturesque views around the area he spent most of his life

William Anton Joseph Claus (1862-1926)

While in the foreground

if you can

Sometime after 1920

Smith’s rendering of the cold stone is sublime - with its twisting forms and dramatic lighting

Bouché was a fascinating character who spent his early years living and studying in France

Hendrik Pieter Koekkoek trained under Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek (1807-1868)

Charles Spackman

Overall size 14” x 18” / 36cm x 46cm

Henry Charles Heath (1829-1898)