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Thomas Physick (fl. 1830-1850) - Rouen Cathedral

Oil on canvas Signed T. Physick lower right 62 x 51 cm. (24 1/4 x 20 in) Little is known of Physick's artistic output, with a very small precedent at auction. Nevertheless the execution and subject of the present painting places the artist in a circle of British artists who travelled to the continent and began to explore in their paintings the themes of medieval architecture and the scenery and other antiquities that they visited. It became popular for British artists to travel to Rouen in the 1820s, and the nature of the present work would suggest that the artist was aware David Roberts (1796-1864), and his own interpretation of the Rouen Cathedral executed on his tour in 1824. Physick painted another view in Rouen that was exhibited at The British Institution in 1847 ( Rouen from the Seine, no. 396).