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Thomas Sautelle Roberts , Irish, 1760-1826

Title

Landscape

Datec.1800

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions

57 x 83 cm

Signedlower right: T.S.R.

Credit LinePurchased, 1923

Object numberNGI.848

Exhibition HistoryJames Arthur O'Connor, The National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, November-December 1985; The Ulster Museum, Belfast, February-March 1986; Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, March-April 1986

Label TextFor this picture Thomas Sautelle Roberts, younger brother of landscapist Thomas Roberts, used a heavily laden brush. This enhances the movement within the composition, particularly that of the water cascading over the rocks in the foreground, and affords the scene, with its cold, lichen-covered rocks and gnarled trees, a notably textural quality. The sketchiness of technique, apparent randomness of composition and pronounced movement within the composition creates a more Romantic atmosphere than the classical, Arcadian scenes popular in Britain and Ireland just a generation earlier.