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Stormy Landscape with ruins on a plain (© National Gallery, London)
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© National Gallery, London

Stormy Landscape with ruins on a plain

Artist: Georges Michel (1763 - 1843)

Location: National Gallery

Date: 1785 - 1843

Materials: oil

Dimensions: 52 x 79 cm

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Review number: 82 (1910)

Description:
One of two paintings donated to the National Gallery by T W Bacon. Bacon was a collector for nearly 50 years, buying his first paintings in 1887. He was a close friend of Sir Charles Holmes, director of the National Gallery from 1916 to 1928, who with his wife was a frequent visitor to Bacon's Essex home, Ramsden Hall.

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