A ruined Abbey
A ruined Abbey
A ruined AbbeyWatercolour over pencil25.1 by 34.6 cm., 9 ¾ by 13 ½ in.Middleton was the best of the second generation of Norwich School artists working in a confident and free style specializing in wooded landscapes, rocky streams and country barns. He died of consumption aged only 29.Stylistically this relates closely to Middleton's `Clearing with a Lumber Mill' in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York which is dated to circa 1847.){kind=link}
John Middleton (1827-1856)
A ruined Abbey
Watercolour over pencil
25.1 by 34.6 cm., 9 ¾ by 13 ½ in.
Middleton was the best of the second generation of Norwich School artists working in a confident and free style specializing in wooded landscapes, rocky streams and country barns. He died of consumption aged only 29.
Stylistically this relates closely to Middleton's `Clearing with a Lumber Mill' in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York which is dated to circa 1847.