Ponte Longo, Andora

1899 · Oil painting · 20.3 × 30.5 cm

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The landscape painter Richard Whately West (1848-1905) was born and raised in Dublin, the son of Rev. John West. He attended Trinity College, Dublin and Pembroke College, Cambridge after which he became a school master for a number of years. Although he had no formal art training, during the years 1878-88 he exhibited at he Royal Academy, the Society of British Artists, the New Watercolour Society (now the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours) and the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. The works exhibited in the Royal Academy included A Coal Wharf at Rotherhithe, 1878 and Piazza and Campanile, Bordighera, Italy, 1885. In 1883 West went abroad on a commission for the Art Journal to sketch the Riviera and in 1885 he spent two months in Alassio, Italy. A year later he painted extensively in Ireland and Wales. He finally settled in Alassio in 1890 and although he kept painting he never sent any of his works back to Britain for exhibition, something which, according to his brother H.W. West, he deeply regretted.

He died suddenly on 23 February 1905 and was buried at Florence. The Richard West Memorial Gallery was opened at Alassio in 1907, in which hang 122 of his works. The Victoria & Albert Museum acquired three of West’s paintings in this same year, the gift of the artist's widow Gertrude.

Following her gift, Gertrude West sent a newspaper cutting to the Museum. Taken from an unidentified English-language newsletter from the Liguria region of Italy, it paraphrases a description by artist Arthur Severn of West’s style and work. Severn refers to a “peculiar refinement…opposed to the sensational and startling work of the impressionist school,” and remarks that West approached nature humbly: “he endeavoured to show forth the beauties of nature rather than display his own skill”.

This landscape depicts as scene near the small town of Andora in Liguria, Italy, close to West’s base at Alassio.

Source:

Walter G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists, Vol. 2 (London: Maunsel and Company Limited, 1913), pp.514-5

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