View of Paignton
Robert Tonge (Longton, Lancashire 1823 - Luxor, Egypt 1856)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1852 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on board
Measurements
229 x 432 mm (9 x 17 in )
Place of origin
Paignton
Order this imageCollection
Greenway, Devon
NT 120001
Summary
Oil painting on thin artist's board, View of Paignton, by Robert Tonge (Longton, Lancashire 1823 - Luxor, Egypt 1856), signed and dated bottom right: R. Tonge/ 1852. The picture shows the view of the town in the distance, from the shore, with the beach in the foreground on the left and overlooking a walled grassy field, on the right.
Provenance
Given by Mrs Rosalind Hicks, Anthony Hicks and Mathew Prichard, 2006
Credit line
Greenway, The Prichard/Hicks Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: Signed, bottom right, R. Tonge/ 1852 Verso: printed label on back of board: FROM / W.H. FINLAY, / CARVER, GILDER, / PICTURE FRAME, / LOOKING GLASS & WINDOW CORNICE MANUFACTURER / TO THE TRADE, / 3 CROPPER STREET, / (Back of Lewis’s), LIVERPOOL.
Makers and roles
Robert Tonge (Longton, Lancashire 1823 - Luxor, Egypt 1856), artist