1750
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Scene in Windsor Forest is a 1750 watercolor by Paul Sandby, a Rococo painting work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a forest scene with trees and bushes in the foreground. In the background, there are more trees and a body of water. The sky is visible through the trees. The painting is done in watercolor and has a soft, dreamy quality to it. The colors are muted, with shades of green, brown, and blue dominating the palette. If you're interested in learning more about this style of painting, you might want to explore the Romanticism movement, which emphasized emotion and the beauty of nature.
A watercolour depicts a woodland scene. The work, catalogued as P.7-1959, was included in Lot 39 at a Christie's sale on 26 May 1959, part of the William Sandby Collection of Drawings by Paul Sandby. It was mounted with an inscription in William Sandby's hand, noting its provenance from the collection of Colonel Gravatt, Royal Engineers, purchased in August 1867 in Windsor Forest.
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Paul Sandby, (1731 – 7 November 1809) was an English mapmaker and painter who specialised in landscape art. Along with his older brother Thomas Sandby, he was one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768.
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