Tan-yr-allt, Tremadoc, Caernarvonshire
1941
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1941
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Tan-yr-allt, Tremadoc, Caernarvonshire is a 1941 watercolor by Rowntree, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a simple white house with a dark roof tucked under a forested hill. The building has three windows on the upper floor, all dark inside, and a covered porch below with glass doors and climbing plants. The hill behind it is thick with green trees and rocky patches, giving the scene a quiet, hidden feel. The artist used soft watercolor strokes to blend the house and hill together, making the whole scene feel calm. The way light hits the roof and porch suggests it’s a bright day, but the trees cast shadows that keep things cozy. Next, check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more of this painting up close.
A watercolour by Rowntree from 1941, it depicts Tan-yr-Allt, a Regency country house featuring a ground-floor veranda with trellising, set against a foreground of steeply sloping lawn and background of trees. The work was produced as part of the Recording Britain scheme, a wartime initiative funded by the Pilgrim Trust and directed by Sir Kenneth Clark to document places and buildings across Britain during the Second World War. Commissioned artists recorded scenes including country estates, rural landscapes, and market towns, aiming to capture a sense of national identity while addressing…
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