Flower Girls of Naples
Thomas Uwins, RA (London 1782 - 1857)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
c. 1830 - 1833
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1149 x 978 mm (45 1/4 x 38 1/2 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Hughenden, Buckinghamshire
NT 428999
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Flower Girls of Naples by Thomas Uwins, RA (London 1782 - 1857), c. 1830-33, exh. British Institution 1833. Five young girls holding flowers and banners, going in procession to the Shrine of the Madonna de Fiori, Naples. Exhibited as 'Children carrying flowers to the Church of the Virgin at the Madonna di Fiore, Naples', British Institution, 1833, no. 113. Referred to in Coningsby (1844) by Benjamin Disraeli, 'The walls of the dining-room were covered with pictures of great merit, all of the modern English school...He possessed some specimens of Etty worthy of Venice when it was alive; he could muse amid the twilight ruins of ancient cities raised by the magic pencil of Danby, or accompany a group of fair Neapolitans to a festival by the genial aid of Uwins.'
Provenance
Possibly from Bradenham (not in 1879 list); given to the National Trust with Hughenden Manor by the Disraelian Society in 1947
Credit line
Hughenden Manor, The Disraeli Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Thomas Uwins, RA (London 1782 - 1857) , artist