Thomas Robins
Drawing
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维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆
倫敦, 英国
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- 核实
- 8天前
- 此状态始于
- 2026年9月25日
- 出处
- 博物馆自己的馆藏数据
关于作品
Drawing of Hanford House, Dorset, the country seat of the dedicated naturalist and amateur butterfly painter Henry Seymer. Seymer was also the owner of an extensive garden of exotics.
Thomas Robins is an enigmatic artist and, so far, little has been discovered of his life. Between 1747 and his death in 1770, Robins produced a series of drawings and paintings of English country houses and, in particular, their gardens. His surviving drawings and paintings epitomise English rococo taste. Robins was either specially attracted to rococo gardens, or had a reputation for the delineation of such gardens in the circles of cognoscenti of the rococo.
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Robins and his work are of significant interest both topographically and aesthetically. His pictures of rococo gardens, with their vistas and ornamental buildings, are of great historical importance because they immortalise a fashion whose exemplars have disappeared. Robins, who was in many respects an 'amateur' painter, never succumbed to conventional facility and his views retain the charm and freshness of a personal discovery.
His son Thomas Robins the Younger was a drawing master who excelled in botanical paintings. He was well acquainted with Henry Seymer and it is on the latter's recommendation that Robins spent 10 years in Jamaica to illustrate the island's wildlife.
维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆
作品信息
- 馆藏编号
- E.1308:5-2001
出处
- 维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆: the museum's own open data · 8天前获取
- 图片： 维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆 — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
