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( 1793 – 1861 )

“Morning on the banks of Zurich Lake with pilgrims embarking on the way to Einsettlin”

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MediumOil on panel
SignedSigned and titled in the artists hand verso
Size6.50" × 8.75" (16.5cm × 22.2cm)
Framed Size12.00" × 14.25" (30.5cm × 36.2cm)
Dated 1849
ConditionVery good condition
ProvenanceRoyal Academy Exhibition 1849
Manchester Art Treasures 1857, no 578
Lord Charles Vere Townshend; Christie's London, 13 May 1854 - sold for £693
LiteratureThis work is featured in Eric Adams’s Francis Danby: varieties of poetic landscape, Mellon 1973
With many thanks to Dr Jenny Gaschke and Francis Greenacre for their assistance in researching and authenticating this painting and providing its history
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    Francis Danby

    Francis Danby was taught the rudiments of painting by the landscape artist O'Connor, from Dublin. He started at a very early age, exhibiting his first landscape, Evening, in Dublin in 1812. In 1813, Danby, O'Connor and Georges Pétrie went to London. Danby sold a few…

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