Artist

Edward Swinburne

The Shag Rock, Tor Bay
Buildings near Rome
Woodland scene: Helmsley, Yorkshire

Edward Swinburne is a British Romanticism artist. 3 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Edward Swinburne painted soft watercolours of real places. In Buildings near Rome you can spot sunlit arches and distant domes. His The Shag Rock, Tor Bay shows jagged cliffs dropping into green water.

Another sheet, Woodland scene: Helmsley, Yorkshire, captures dappled light through tall trees and a narrow stream. Swinburne worked in England between about 1790 and 1840, turning views he saw into calm, portable pictures. Tap The Shag Rock, Tor Bay to follow the Devon coast into the next set.

Works by Edward Swinburne

Collections represented

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