Lot n° 84
Estimation :
3000 - 4000
EUR
Philip Hutchins ROGERS (Plymouth, 1794-Baden-Baden,... - Lot 84 - Briscadieu
Philip Hutchins ROGERS (Plymouth, 1794-Baden-Baden, 1853)
Mountain Landscape (Pyrenees or Northern Italy), 1822
Canvas signed lower right and dated 1822.
66 x 95 cm.
Original gilded frame.
A painter of landscapes and seascapes, Philip Hutchins Rogers was born in Plymouth, where he trained with John Bidlake, in the company of Samuel Prout, Benjamin Haydon and Charles Lock Eastlake. His master then paid for him to study in London, where he benefited from famous patrons such as Reynolds and Turner. He ended his life in Germany, where he settled from 1839. After the fall of Napoleon, P.H. Rogers was one of a cohort of Englishmen who rushed to Europe to revive the practice of the continental tour. A precursor of mountain landscapes, in 1820 he completed a sketching tour of the French and then Spanish Pyrenees. This gave him the opportunity to present several paintings of the Ariège and Catalonia regions to the Royal Academy between 1821 and 1833. He also traveled to Italy, which suggests that our view may also have been taken in the foothills of the Italian Alps. The painter gives magnificent scope to this landscape, in which the gentle valley, with its successive planes, variations in light and chromatic intensity, and the blue arabesque of a river, is just as important as the mountains in the background. The touch is as meticulous as that of the French, who composed historical landscapes. But rather than the mythological fictions that served as a pretext for the latter, the Englishman prefers the simple exaltation of grandiose nature.
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