William Marlow (Southwark 1740-1813 Twickenham)


A distant view of Rome from the North oil on canvas101.6 x 127.3cm (40 x 50 1/8in).
|ProvenanceJeremiah Harman (d. 1844), London (according to an old inscription on the stretcher bar, verso)With Thomas Agnew and Sons, London, by 1978The Collection of Sir Sidney Barratt, Crowe Hall, BathExhibitedPossibly, London, Society of Artists, 1769, no. 92London, Thomas Agnew and Sons, Three Centuries of British Painting, 1978, no. 31Marlow travelled to Italy and France in the 1760s on the advice of the Duchess of Northumberland, and many of his Italian views remain at Alnwick Castle. A similar view by Marlow was offered at Sotheby's London on 13 June 2002, lot 6. The present work and the Sotheby's work relate to a drawing from circa 1766, which is now in the Oppé Collection, Tate Gallery.