Thomas Uwins1782–1857Suspicion
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SalaBritish Galleries, Room 122Londra, Regno Unito
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- Verificato
- 9 giorni fa
- Ultimo cambio di stato
- 25 set 2026
- Fonte
- I dati di collezione del museo stesso
About the painting
Object Type
Oil paintings depicting the Italian and Swiss countryside grew in popularity in the first half of the 19th century. They appealed particularly to collectors such as John Sheepshanks and the Reverend Chauncey Hare Townshend.
People
Thomas Uwins (1782-1857) had worked first as a watercolourist, miniature and portrait painter, and book illustrator. After visiting France, living in Scotland and then in Italy, he returned to England. He soon specialised in oil paintings of Italian genre subjects.
Subjects Depicted
Most of his works represented happy Italian peasants but in this painting a loftier theme with a note of tragedy is introduced. The painting was exhibited in 1848 with a quotation from an Italian story.
Read on
'Poor Rosa! To relieve the solitude of the villa she would have her chair taken out on the terrace where she would sit for hours listening to the music of a wandering minstrel: even this pleasure was at last denied her. Donna Chiara the old nun in the household took it into her wise head that the minstrel was a lover in disguise.'
The theme of the suspicious old woman taking her role of tyrannical chaperone to extremes was one that many Victorian young ladies could sympathise with.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Scheda
- Numero di inventario
- FA.212[O]
What it shows
In catalogo
Fonti
- Victoria and Albert Museum: the museum's own open data · acquisita 9 giorni fa
- Immagine: Victoria and Albert Museum — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
