Moonlit River Scene with a Capriccio of Ruins
Sebastian Pether (1790 – Battersea 1844)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1842 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
698 x 902 mm
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 515717
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Moonlit River Scene with a Capriccio of Ruins by Sebastian Pether (1790 – Battersea 1844), signed and dated 1842. Moonlit landscape with mountain valley, classical ruins at left, waterfall in foreground with two female figures.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust by Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) with the house and the rest of the contents.
Credit line
Anglesey Abbey, The Fairhaven Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Sebastian Pether (1790 – Battersea 1844), artist