Fine Mountain Paintings

Thomas Miles Richardson Jr. [1813-1890] Rowbotham, Thomas Charles Leeson [1823-1874]

 976 The Bay of Uri from Brunnen. c1870 pastel.  45 x 65 cms.

 ***476 Well and Wetterhorn from Rosenlaui. Engelhorner. c1865 chromolithograph by M. & N. Hanhart. original price £1 11s. 6d. 43.5 x 65 cms.

Aiguille Vertes and Dru from above Col des Montets, Argentieres. 1882 watercolour. signed T.M. RICHARDSON l.r. & dated '82. 45 x 65 cms.

The Lake of Thun - Oberhofen. 1855 watercolour. signed and dated bottom left. 37 x 56 cms.

Jungfraw from Lauterbrunnen. 1866 chromolithograph by Kell Brothers.  50 x 38 cms.

 Rowbotham, Thomas Charles Leeson [1823-1874]

Painted Italian Lake views although he never visited there. His father Thomas Leeson [1782-1853]

Thomas Miles Richardson Jr. [1813-1890] travelled and painted widely in Europe.  His major book SKETCHES IN ITALY, SWITZERLAND, FRANCE &c. Richardson's Sketches on the Continent. Thomas McLean, London 1837 printed at A Ducotes & C. Hullmandells Lithographic Establishments. 1st. and only edition. Elephant Folio. [56 x 38 cms.]

His use of bright colours partly helps distinguish him from  Thomas Charles Leeson Rowbotham [1823-1874]

Both had followed in their fathers footsteps and both  had some of their original paintings published in chromolithography, their styles resembled each other making it sometimes difficult to tell one from the other

the chromolithograph

Ben Nevis and Loch Eil. 1871 watercolour. signed and dated bottom right. 20 x 50 cms.

The Wetterhorn c1870 pastel early copy of the chromolithograph. 45 x 65 cms.