A PAIR OF CAPRICCI LANDSCAPES ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN RATHBONE (1750-1807)

A PAIR OF CAPRICCI LANDSCAPES 

ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN RATHBONE (1750-1807)

A pair of oil on board capricci. The imaginery scenes represent typical late-18th century capricci depicting architectural ruins and figures within riverscapes. One with figures before a waterfall with a ruined city in the background, the other with figures beside a river with a ruined villa on a bluff in the background.

Rathbone exhibited three landscapes at the exhibition of the Society of Artists in Liverpool in August 1774 and between 1785 and 1806 he exhibited forty-eight landscapes at the Royal Academy and two at the Society of Artists.

Framed in a late-18th century carved giltwood swept frames

English School, late 18th Century