The Cascade at Tivoli
Thomas Barker (Pontypool 1769 - Bath 1847)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1836 (inscribed on reverse)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
991 x 762 mm (39 x 30 in)
Place of origin
Bath
Order this imageCollection
Hatchlands Park, Surrey
NT 1166714
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Cascade at Tivoli by Thomas Barker (Pontypool 1769 – Bath 1847), signed (concealed by frame)...Barker 1836, and on portfolio bside the figure of the artist, T. Barker Inglese Roma. A bridge with a waterfall beyond and three figures in the foreground. Barker visited Rome in 1796 and in the same year exhibited at the RA (342) a 'View of Great Waterfall at Tivoli seen through the Ponte Lupo'.
Provenance
Bought by the Ministry of Works from Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel (1887-1959) (Christie's, 7 March 1958) and transferred by HM Treasury to the National Trust in 1958
Credit line
Hatchlands, The Goodhart-Rendel Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: Inset on reverse of canvas - 'LILLESHALL catalogue LX- View of Tivoli - Thomas Barker pinxit 1836'.
Makers and roles
Thomas Barker (Pontypool 1769 - Bath 1847), artist