FAMAG 2003.1.2


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A replica French architectural moulding frame from the first half of the nineteenth century, with canted architrave profile; convex top edge and small sight moulding; finished with parcel-gilding on the rails, the frieze and back edge painted a light grey-blue; supplied by Paul Mitchell Limited.

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Richardson, John Thomas (1860-1942): Madeira Walk with Japanese Knotweed - Falmouth, oil on card, 25 x 34.3 cms. Presented by Mrs Margaret Morris.


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A strong, bold profile, in which the mitres pick up and echo the receding parallels of the painted lane, creating a powerful perspectival recession into the picture. This is the avant-garde model of the early nineteenth century, associated with artists who were breaking away from the Classical, Poussinesque landscapes of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and were concerned to provide a more immediate pictorial representation of Nature, influenced by the Romantic movement. This is an ideal frame for a painting in the British Impressionist style of the late nineteenth/early twentieth century, where again the representation of Nature has moved on, to the depiction of a landscape at one particular moment. The grey-blue frieze gives the frame a more contemporary, twentieth-century cast.