Artist

John Peter Gandy

John Peter Gandy is a British Romanticism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

John Gandy had a habit of wandering graveyards at dusk, sketching ruins by moonlight when no one else would look. His watercolor of a crumbling Lycian tomb in Turkey feels alive, the stones breathe, the shadows stretch like fingers. Try zooming in on the cracked sarcophagus in A Tomb in Lycia, Turkey: notice how the light picks out the carvings, almost like the building is remembering its own past.

Works by John Peter Gandy

Collections represented

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