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View of Florence from Villa San Firenze

Image credit: Government Art Collection

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Lear first went to Florence in 1839. He travelled to the city for a second time in the summer of 1861 to make a painting for one of his most consistent patrons, Frances, Lady Waldegrave (later Frances Fortescue). On 28 June 1861, he visited the Villa San Firenze on the outskirts of Florence. From here he sketched the city and, as he later recorded in his diary, 'drew cypresses between showers of rain'. This work was painted in the following year for Sir Thomas Fairbairn from drawings made on that day. It is one of three landscapes that Fairbairn commissioned from Lear.

Government Art Collection

London

Title

View of Florence from Villa San Firenze

Date

1862

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 63 x W 127 cm

Accession number

6950

Acquisition method

purchased from Oscar & Peter Johnson, 1965

Work type

Painting

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