Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding, 1787–1855, British

Title:

A Scene on the Coast, Merionethshire - Storm Passing Off

Date:

1818

Materials & Techniques:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

53 x 78 1/4 inches (134.6 x 198.8 cm)

Credit Line:

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Public Domain

Accession Number:

B1973.1.16

Classification:

Paintings

Collection:

Paintings and Sculpture

Subject Terms:

Associated Places:

Currently On View:

Not on view

Exhibition History:

Love, Life, Death, and Desire: An Installation of the Center's Collections (Yale Center for British Art, 2020-10-01 - 2021-02-28)

Art in Focus : Wales (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-04-04 - 2014-08-10)

Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25)

Oil on Water - Oil Sketches by British Watercolorists (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-08-26 - 1986-11-09)

Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)

Publications:

Christie's sale catalogue : Catalogue of ancient & modern pictures : also Pictures by Old Masters and Works of the Early English School : 27 February 1909, Christie's, London, p. 17, lot 100, Fiche B37 (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 94-95, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Oil on water : oil sketches by British watercolorists, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1986, pp. 33-34, fig. 23, ND467 C67 (YCBA)

Megan Cullen, Fairest isle : the appreciation of British scenery, 1750-1850 : [exhibition] label copy. Yale Center for British Art, April 12-June 25, 1989., , Yale Center for British Art, [New Haven, 1989, p. 33, no. 65, ND1354.4 F351 1989 (YCBA)

Fine Arts, Literary Gazette, v. 3, no. 109, February 20, 1819, p. 119, A88 L41+ (SML)

Algernon Graves, The British Institution, 1806-1867 : a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from the foundation of the institution, Kingsmead Reprints, Bath : UK, p. 186, 1819, no. 84, N5055 B86 G73 1969 (YCBA)

Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 31, 123-124, no. I.21, pl. 24, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)

Paul Joyner, Dolbadarn, studies on a theme , National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1990, pp. 36-37, N8214.5 W2 D65 1990 (YCBA)

Graham Reynolds, Scene and Sensibility, TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, , April 29, 1983, p. 438, TLS Historical Archive

Duncan Robinson, Fairest isle : the appreciation of British scenery, 1750-1850, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1989, p. 9, no. 65, ND1354.4 F35 (YCBA)

Yale Center for British Art, Wales, New Haven, 2014, p. 21, V2519 (YCBA)

Gallery Label:

Romantic artists celebrated the transcendent beauty of wild, untamed nature. This painting represents Traeth Bychan, near Tremadog, a remote spot on the Isle of Anglesey in North Wales. The result is a great hymn to the sublime power of nature. Colonel Grant, a contemporary critic, described this view as “a vast, brooding canvas, lowering in storm and wrought with a brush full charged with thunder.” Gallery label for Love, Life, Death, and Desire: An Installation of the Center's Collections (Yale Center for British Art, 2020-11-01 – 2021-02-28)

Link:

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:121