1782
Medium Oil on paper
Dimensions 11.4 x 16cm
cjr
88455
An Excavation
1777(1777)
Medium Oil on paper
cyf
91239
Penkerrig
1772(1772)
Medium oil on paper
Dimensions 23 x 30,5 cm
cjr
94859
Thomas Jones and his Family by Francesco Renaldi
Thomas Jones with his family in Italy. 1797. Oil on canvas. National Museum of Wales collections.
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Thomas Jones
Thomas Jones (26 September 1742 - 29 April 1803) was a British landscape painter. He was a pupil of Richard Wilson and was best known in his lifetime as a painter of Welsh and Italian landscapes in the style of his master. However, Jones's reputation grew in the 20th century when more unconventional works by him, ones not been intended for public consumption, came to light. Most notable among these is a series of views of Naples which he painted from 1782 to 1783. By breaking with the conventions of classical landscape painting in favour of direct observation, they look forward to the work of Camille Corot and the Barbizon School in the 19th century. His autobiography, Memoirs of Thomas Jones of Penkerrig, went unpublished until 1951 but is now recognised as a major work of commentary on the 18th-century art world.
