- Artist
- Sir Charles Lock Eastlake 1793–1865
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 527 × 654 mm
frame: 712 × 844 × 90 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1964
- Reference
- T00664
Catalogue entry
Sir Charles Eastlake 1793–1865
T00664 View of the colosseum from the esquiline 1822
Not inscribed.
Oil on canvas, 20¾ x 25¾ (52.5 x 65.5).
Presented by the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1964.
Coll: Painted for Greville Howard of Levens Hall, Westmorland. . . . Colonel M. H. Grant, by 1932; Luther Antiques, acquired with the Grant Collection 1962; sold to the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1964.
Exh: Early Devon Painters, Exeter, July–September 1932 (228 and 229 with No. T00665 as ‘A pair of views of the Coliseum’, lent by Colonel M. H. Grant); The First Hundred Years of the Royal Academy, R.A., Winter 1951–52 (265); Italian Art and Britain, R.A., Winter 1960 (234).
Lit: Eastlake, II, 1870, p. 194; M. H. Grant, Old English Landscape Painters, II, 1926, p. 327, repr. pl. 193.
Repr: Apollo, LXXVI, 1963, advertisement, p. iv.
Lady Eastlake’s ‘Memoir’ in Eastlake, II, 1870, p. 100, states that Eastlake remained in Rome during the heat of the summer in 1821 and 1822 and the landscapes he painted there had a considerable influence on other landscape painters. In the list of his works given at the end of the Memoir (p. 193) four other views of the Colosseum occur, dated 1820 and 1821. The present pair are described as follows: ‘View of Coliseum from English College Garden’ and ‘View of Coliseum from Moronite Convent’, both painted for Mr. Greville Howard. No other record of the pictures has been traced prior to their appearance in the collection of Colonel Grant.
Published in The Tate Gallery Report 1964–1965, London 1966.
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