Thomas Jones, traditionally known as Thomas Jones, Pencerrig, was a Welsh landscape artist of considerable talent and inventiveness. He is best known as an artist of the ordinary landscape, such as landscapes in and around his family home, or the brilliantly painted, blank whitewashed walls seen opposite his studio at Naples.
He was a man of considerable spirit who combined a deeply moral bent with a freethinking attitude to life. His life was a grand mixture of lost hopes with a realistic assessment of his own achievements. Jones was a popular and gifted artist, who charmed patrons but he lacked the ability to persevere with successful aspects of his art. Just at the point when many of his colleagues were needing to undertake crass engraving work, teaching or repetitive commissions, in 1787 Jones inherited his family estate and thus his final years were artistically his most creative.
The exhibition
This virtual exhibition commemorates the bicentenary of Thomas Jones's death, whilst at the same time acknowledging a highly important bequest by the late Mrs J. Evan-Thomas of the Memoirs, Account Book, Hafod Sketchbook and watercolours taken in and around Pencerrig. It contains information and images of all the objects in the bequest together with Six views in South Wales and a manuscript Italian Day Book,currently held for safe keeping at the Powys County Archives Office.
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