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Jones, Thomas

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Jones, Thomas (b Trevonnen, Radnorshire [now Powys], 26 Sept. 1742; d Pencerrig, Radnorshire, 29 Apr. 1803). Welsh landscape painter, a pupil of Richard Wilson. He painted some ambitious classical landscapes in Wilson's manner, but he is now best known for his remarkably fresh and unaffected oil sketches done in and around Naples and Rome during a period in Italy, 1776–83 (examples are in the National Museum and Gallery, Cardiff). They are among the earliest British examples of this kind of open-air sketch and have a directness that looks forward to Corot. In 1789 Jones inherited the family estate and thereafter painted comparatively little.

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Jones, Thomas

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists | 2003 | | Copyright

Jones, Thomas (1742–1803). Welsh landscape painter, a pupil of Richard Wilson. He painted some ambitious classical landscapes in Wilson's manner, but he is now best known for his remarkably fresh and unaffected oil sketches done in and around Naples and Rome during a period in Italy, 1776–83 (good examples are in the National Museum and Gallery, Cardiff). They are among the earliest British examples of this kind of open-air sketch and have a directness that looks forward to Corot.

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Free newspaper and magazine articles

	Thomas & Jones.(wedding register 2009) Magazine article from: Mississippi Magazine; 1/1/2009
	Thomas Jones: an eighteenth-century welsh artist in Italy.(Biography) Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 2/1/2004
	In the footsteps of Thomas Jones.(Features) Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 7/14/2003