Coast Scene near Terracina

Location

Country: Argentina
City: Buenos Aires
Place: British Embassy

Landscapist William Marlow was born in London or Southwark. He trained in the studio of marine painter Samuel Scott in Covent Garden (1756-61) and is also thought to have studied at the St Martin’s Lane Academy. Marlow spent his early career travelling around England in search of subjects; painting English country houses and the areas around Twickenham, Richmond, and the lower banks of the Thames. On the advice of the Duchess of Northumberland he travelled to France and Italy (1765-66). He exhibited at the Society of Artists, becoming Vice-President in 1778, and at the Royal Academy. Marlow lived for a time in Leicester Fields (now Leicester Square). His one pupil was John Curtis. In c.1785 he retired to Twickenham, where he died aged 72.

Places

Mediterranean Sea, Italy, Terracina

Subjects

rowing boat, topography, genre, seascape/coastal scene, tree, stone/rock, shore, beach, cliff, man, woman, house, ruin, archway, sailboat

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

William Marlow (1740 - 1813)

Title

Coast Scene near Terracina

Date

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 134.00 cm, width: 192.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Colnaghi's, February 1956

Inscription

sbr

Provenance

Sold through Christie's, London, in 1786; from which sale purchased by politician and traveller Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston (1739-1802) of Broadlands, near Romsey, Hampshire; by descent to emergency relief services and vicereine of India Dame Edwina Cynthia Annette Mountbatten [née Ashley], Countess Mountbatten of Burma (1901-1960); from whom (via archivist Mrs Georgina Blois) purchased by Colnaghi, London, on 27 February 1948; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works on 8 February 1956

GAC number

3419