Frederick T. Sibley (1837-1912) Winter Scene in North Wales Pastel

Frederick T. Sibley (1837-1912)

Winter scene in North Wales

Pastel on board, cm 122 x 5

With frame 151,5 x 111 cm

Signed lower left “FT Sibley 1893”

The work in question depicts a bright winter landscape that is identified with the gentle valleys of the Wales region, in England. A snow-capped peak forms the backdrop to a small stone bridge suspended between the rocks that make up the rugged British landscape. The painting is part of that pictorial movement called Romanticism that takes its cue from the cultural and philosophical climate of nineteenth-century Germany thanks to authors such as Caspar David Friedrich, and then spread to England with William Turner and John Constable. Romantic art was based on the principle of the sublime, that is, in the relationship between man and nature, the latter prevailed over the former, who could do nothing in the face of its beauty, capable of arousing contrasting feelings of restlessness and mysticism in the human soul. The author of the painting is identified as Frederick T. Sibley (1837-1912), an English artist, who founded, together with other artists, the Royal Cambrian Academy at the end of the nineteenth century, the first British colony of artists. The association emerged from David Cox's summer stays at Betws-y-Coed between 1844 and 1856. The seven men who launched the Academy were all devotees of the artists' colony, many of whom were from the north west of England from where Betws-y-Coed was within easy reach by train. By 1881 the Conwy Valley in North Wales was at the height of its fame as an academy which welcomed large numbers of professional and amateur artists. The prospect of seeing painters at work attracted large numbers of visitors, and the seaside town of Llandudno emerged as a centre for the sale of many of these works. Established in 1881 by Queen Victoria, the Royal Cambrian Academy is a centre of artistic excellence in Wales, aiming to exhibit work by Academy members, promote emerging artists of quality, organise landmark exhibitions and provide a vibrant venue for education. In 1887 Sibley was numbered among the Society's Academicians and exhibited at the RCA Annual Exhibition the painting Bridge and Fall at Nant Mill, which sold for £80, and in 1890 he exhibited A Lonely Shore.

The object is in good condition

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