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Thomas Jones (26 September 1742 – 29 April 1803) was a Welsh landscape painter. He was a pupil of Richard Wilson and was best known in his lifetime as a painter of Welsh and Italian landscapes in the style of his master. However, Jones's reputation grew in the 20th century when more unconventional works by him, not originally intended for exhibition, came to light. Most notable among these is a series of views of Naples which he painted from 1782 to 1783. By breaking with the conventions of classical landscape painting in favour of direct observation, they look forward to the work of Camille Corot and the Barbizon School in the 19th century. His autobiography, Memoirs of Thomas Jones of Penkerrig, went unpublished until 1951 but is now recognised as an important source of information on the 18th-century art world.
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Thomas Jones Pencerrig
1772 -
Thomas Jones Naples: Buildings on a Cliff Top
1782 -
Thomas Jones The Bay of Naples and the Mole Lighthouse
1782 -
Thomas Jones Naples: The Capella Nuova outside the Porta di Chiaja
1782 -
Thomas Jones Mount Vesuvius from Torre dell’Annunziata near Naples
1783 -
Thomas Jones The Outskirts of London: A View Looking towards Queen Square
1785–6 -
Thomas Jones Pencerrig
1776 -
Thomas Jones In the Road to Santa Maria de’Monti, near Naples: Morning
1781
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