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Artist: Henry Pether
Venice by Moonlight - 19th Century Oil Painting of the Grand Canal by Full Moon
By Henry Pether
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
'Venice by Moonlight' by Henry Pether (1800-1880).
The painting – which depicts an extensive nocturnal view of the Grand Canal with the Palazzo Pisani Gritti to the left and the Dor...
Category
Mid-19th Century Old Masters Henry Pether Art
Materials
Oil
Venice by Moonlight - 19th Century Oil Painting of Grand Canal under a Full Moon
By Henry Pether
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
'Venice by Moonlight' by Henry Pether (1800-1880).
The painting – which depicts an extensive nocturnal view of the Grand Canal with the Palazzo Pisani Gritti to the left and the Dor...
Category
Mid-19th Century Old Masters Henry Pether Art
Materials
Oil
Moonlit Cathedral River Landscape, 19th Century Henry Pether (1800-1880)
By Henry Pether
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Moonlit Cathedral River Landscape, 19th Century
Henry Pether (1800-1880)
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Category
19th Century Henry Pether Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
River Thames at Leigh by Moonlight - 19th Century Oil Painting Nocturne 1851
By Henry Pether
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘The River Thames at Leigh by Moonlight’ by Henry Pether (1800-1880).
The painting is signed by the artist and dated 1851 and is presented in a bespoke gold metal leaf frame.
• Vi...
Category
1850s Victorian Henry Pether Art
Materials
Oil
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Windsor Nocturne
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The strong diagonal of the river leads the eye far into the distance, to where the clouds are silvered by the moon. Henry Pether captures the numinous moment when the heavens fade from blue to midnight blue and clouds acquire an almost sculptural solidity. The moonlight is shining on the buildings, defining the whole range of the castle.
The artist recreates the experience of objects coming into focus as the viewer’s eyes become accustomed to the twilight. After gazing for a few moments, we are made aware of the complexity of the foreground scene: a man gazing at the approaching man with horses. Pether employs a very subtle range of colours, from the icy blue of the deep heavens, to a rich range of browns, to the silver-gilt of the moonlight, to evoke a peaceful spring night.
This painting can be compared to the similar work, of much the same size and date, in Anglesey Abbey.
Here, Pether uses a personal technique, covering his canvas with blue before using a camera obscura to obtain exact shapes and perspective directly from real life.
Pether was supremely competent in the technique of representing moonlight shining through cloud by the use of soft glazes over patches of dense paint.
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