Date: Unknown
Technique: Oil on canvas, 102 x 89 cm
Showing posts with label Francis Danby (1793-1861). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Francis Danby (1793-1861). Show all posts
4/19/17
3/8/16
Francis Danby, The Wood Nymph’s Hymn to the Rising Sun
Date: 1845
Technique: Oil on canvas, 1073 x 1524 mm
1/28/16
Francis Danby, The Enchanted Castle
Date: c. 1841
Technique: Oil on canvas, 83.8 x 116.8 cm
8/11/15
Francis Danby, Funeral Procession
Date: c. 1848
Technique: Oil on canvas, 349 x 549 mm
6/6/11
Francis Danby, Scene from the Apocalypse
Private collection
Date: c. 1829
Technique: Oil on canvas, 61 x 77 cm
After attending the drawing school of the Royal Dublin Society and spending a brief period in London, Danby settled around 1813 for two decades in Bristol, in whose environs he painted the small, exquisite landscapes on which his fame today largely rests. Forced to leave England in 1829 due to financial problems and a marital scandal, Danby established himself in Paris and Geneva, where he remained until 1840. His oils, ink drawings, and watercolours, focussing on lyrically romantic landscapes, represents one of the most significant contributions made by any artist to nineteenth-century British landscape painting. He also concerned himself with religious themes, treated in a visionary manner.
The present painting is presumably one of four depicting scenes from the Apocalypse. In a Romantic nocturnal landscape evoking the infinity of the cosmos appears a vision of the giant angel described in Chapter 10 of the Apocalypse, descending in a cloud from heaven with a rainbow over his head and legs like columns of fire. The natural scene in which the visionary apparition is set evinces a coloration and sophisticated painterly handling that explain Danby's rank as one of the finest British landscapists of the nineteenth century.
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10/25/10
Francis Danby, The Deluge
Tate Gallery, London
Date: exhibited 1840
Technique: Oil on canvas, 2845 x 4521 mm
Danby made his name with epic subjects, often on a large scale. This was his last. The subject is from the Old Testament book of Genesis. God sends a flood to punish mankind’s wickedness but allows Noah and his family to be saved. Noah’s ark is in the background, illuminated by a shaft of moonlight. A stormy sea rages round a rocky peak and massive tree branches, to which humans and animals are clinging desperately. A blood-red sun can be seen setting to the left. In the lower right hand corner, an angel weeps over the death of a child.
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