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
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)