ROBERT CARVER | A wooded river landscape with classical ruins, a drover with cattle and figures playing music in the foreground

With Simon Dickinson Ltd., London;

From whom acquired on 15 June 1994 by the present owner. 

Referred to by contemporary newspaper critics as ‘the ingenious and celebrated Mr Carver’, Robert Carver was an Irish artist who specialised in idealised landscapes in the style of Poussin and exhibited extensively at the Incorporated Society of Artists, The Royal Academy and the Free Society of Arts, of which he became President in 1777. He was probably most celebrated in his own day as a scene painter.