Description
Lindsay was born at Alnwick, Northumberland on 26th December 1792. He trained as a landscape painter in watercolour and exhibited at the New Watercolour Society from 1833, living in London and then Greenwich. In 1848 he moved to Cusop near Hay-on-Wye where he lived at Dulas Cottage. This on-the-spot sketch, inscribed with colour notes, is a view taken from his local church.
Examples of his work are in the British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Library, Wales.
Inscription
Inscribed upper centre: All these light Clouds are floating underneath a higher of cold gray,/mottled over a blue tint of sky/very like this paper, but very/little of which is/seen/23d July 1858/Cusop Ch. yard and lower left: Cusop Churchyard and verso: By Thos Lindsay
Descriptive Medium
Watercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour on blue-green paper
Image Licence
All Rights Reserved
Image Credit
image © Guy Peppiatt Fine Art
Location
St Mary's Church, Cusop, Herefordshire, England
Country
England
Tags
Category
Landscapes & Seascapes
