The Colleoni Statue and the Church of San Giovanni e Paolo, Venice
The Colleoni Statue and the Church of San Giovanni e Paolo, Venice
The Colleoni Statue and the Church of San Giovanni e Paolo, VeniceSigned lower left: TH CROMEK VENICE/1834. Watercolour over traces of pencil heightened with bodycolour25.6 by 17.8 cm., 10 by 7 in.Provenance:By descent in the Cheney family to the present ownerCromek was born in London, the son of engraver, and was apprenticed to a portrait painter in Wakefield, Yorkshire. He soon became a landscape painter and lived and worked on the continent, and mainly in Rome, from 1831 to 1849. He built up a successful teaching practice there until 1849 when he was forced home by Garibaldi's threatened attack on Rome. This and no. 31 belonged to the keen amateur artist Robert Henry Cheney (1801-1866) who was a friend and pupil of Cromek.This shows the statue of the Venetian Condottiero Bartolommeo Colleoni (1400-1475) designed by Andrea del Verrocchio which stands outside the church of San Giovanni e Paolo which is visible to the right.){kind=link}
Thomas Hartley Cromek (1809-1873)
The Colleoni Statue and the Church of San Giovanni e Paolo, Venice
Signed lower left: TH CROMEK VENICE/1834.
Watercolour over traces of pencil heightened with bodycolour
25.6 by 17.8 cm., 10 by 7 in.
Provenance:
By descent in the Cheney family to the present owner
Cromek was born in London, the son of engraver, and was apprenticed to a portrait painter in Wakefield, Yorkshire. He soon became a landscape painter and lived and worked on the continent, and mainly in Rome, from 1831 to 1849. He built up a successful teaching practice there until 1849 when he was forced home by Garibaldi's threatened attack on Rome. This and no. 31 belonged to the keen amateur artist Robert Henry Cheney (1801-1866) who was a friend and pupil of Cromek.
This shows the statue of the Venetian Condottiero Bartolommeo Colleoni (1400-1475) designed by Andrea del Verrocchio which stands outside the church of San Giovanni e Paolo which is visible to the right.