THOMAS HARTLEY CROMEK (BRITISH 1809-1873)

THOMAS HARTLEY CROMEK (BRITISH 1809-1873)
Santa Maria in Cosmedian, Rome
Watercolour over pencil
35 x 49cm (13 3/4 x 19 1/4in)

Provenance:
Acquired from the artist by W. Burkinshaw, Art teacher at Wakefield College of Art 1860-1890. Thence by descent to the present owner.

Literature:
Thomas Hartley Cromek: A Classical Vision, Harewood House Trust, 1999, with biographical essay by Suzanne Zack based on her unpublished catalogue raisonée The Life & Work of Thomas Hartley Cromek

W. Burkinshaw was a friend of T.H. Cromek. and taught at Wakefield College of Art during the latter years of Cromek's life when he returned to Wakefield before his death in 1873.