Name: JOSEPH ARTHUR PALLISER SEVERN (ROME 1842-1931 LONDON)
Brand: Sunset on the Thames
Price: 2400.00 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

JOSEPH ARTHUR PALLISER SEVERN (ROME 1842-1931 LONDON)
Sunset on the Thames
signed and dated 'Arthur Severn. 1875' (lower left)
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour and with scratching out on paper
14¹⁄₂ x 21¹⁄₈ in. (36.8 x 53.7 cm.)

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Severn was the younger son of the painter Joseph Severn (1793-1879), who was a close friend of John Keats (1795-1821) in Rome. He exhibited landscape watercolours of both Italy and Britain, and in 1871 married Joan Agnew, a cousin of John Ruskin. When Ruskin moved to Brantwood, Lake District that year, the Severns accompanied him and remained part of his household until his death. Arthur Severn's recollections of Ruskin were published in 1967, edited by James Dearden.