Thomas Roberts (Waterford 1748 – 1778 Lisbon) – A LANDSTORM; A MOUNTAINOUS LANDSCAPE WITH TRAVELLERS ON A BRIDGE (£80,000-120,000).
A previously unrecorded painting by the Waterford artist Thomas Roberts (1748-1778) comes up at Sotheby’s sale of Old Master and British Paintings in London on July 4. A Landstorm; A Mountainous Landscape with Travellers on a Bridge is from an American private collection.
In style the work belongs to a group of large scale paintings which the artist painted around 1774-5. The theme is in two paintings commissioned by Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn for his London mansion at St. James’s Square designed by Robert Adam and considered to be one of the grandest houses in London.
Another version of this composition is at Fota House in Co. Cork.