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Stormy Landscape with ruins on a plain
Georges Michel, 1785–1843
© National Gallery, London
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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Title of artwork, date
Stormy Landscape with ruins on a plain, 1785–1843
Date supported
1910
Medium and material
Oil
Dimensions
52 x 79 cm
Gifted by
T W Bacon
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