GEORGE MULLINS | A RIVER LANDSCAPE WITH A GROUP OF FIGURES BY A WATERFALL, WITH CLASSICAL RUINS, AN IRISH ROUND-TOWER AND A MOUNTAIN BEYOND

GEORGE MULLINS
Dublin 1726 - 1816
A RIVER LANDSCAPE WITH A GROUP OF FIGURES BY A WATERFALL, WITH CLASSICAL RUINS, AN IRISH ROUND-TOWER AND A MOUNTAIN BEYOND

oil on canvas
90.6 by 137cm., 35⅝by 54in.

Condition Report:
The canvas is lined which has resulted in the paint surface becoming very slightly thinned in parts, such as some of the darks and sky. The paint surface is clean with a slightly discoloured varnish. Inspection under ultraviolet light reveals small lines of scattered cosmetic retouchings, notably in the darker pigments along and extending in from the left, lower and right margins, as well as in the lower part of the sky along the silhouette of the mountain range. There are a handful of more concentrated retouchings, for example: to a repaired damage in the middleground centre left approx. 20cm. in from the left margin which measures 6 x 4cm; to a repaired tear in the bottom of the tree trunk lower right approx. 6cm. long; and to a handful of spots along the margins, the largest in the right half of the upper margin approx. 4 x 7cm. All these are sensitively executed and do not impede the legibility of the painting, which presents well and is ready to hang in its current state.

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Provenance:
Private Collection, Italy;

With Ben Elwes Fine Art, London, 2007, from whom acquired (as by George Barret).