Tintern Abbey from the Chepstow Road

Location

Country: Bahrain
City: Manama
Place: British Embassy

Frederick Henry Henshaw, landscape painter, came from Birmingham. His work was greatly influenced by J. M. W. Turner. By 1829, Henshaw was living at 13 Charlotte Street, London. Between 1837 and 1840 he travelled in Germany, Switzerland and Italy. However, his paintings are mostly British landscape views in the Midlands, Wales and Scotland. Henshaw exhibited in London at the Royal Academy, the British Institution and the Society of British Artists in Suffolk Street, between 1829 and 1864. He also exhibited at the Birmingham Society of Artists. He occasionally collaborated with another painter, R. J. Hammond. Today, paintings by Henshaw are in the collections of Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery and Glasgow Art Gallery.

Places

River Wye, Wales, Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, Wye Valley

Subjects

topography, landscape C19th, tree, mountain, river, valley, man, abbey, ruin, church windows

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Frederick Henry Henshaw (1807 - 1891)

Title

Tintern Abbey from the Chepstow Road

Date

1833

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 51.50 cm, width: 72.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Sotheby's, 25 January 1977

Inscription

Sdbl

Provenance

Sold through Sotheby's, Belgravia, 'Victorian Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours' sale, on 25 January 1977 (Lot 141); from which sale purchased by the Department of the Environment

GAC number

12687