Lot 7: - Joseph Tudor , (c. 1695-1759) Figures in a wooded landscape oil on canvas, held in a British Baroque style carved and gilded frame

signed l.r.; J Tudor/1754 oil on canvas, held in a British Baroque style carved and gilded frame

measurements note 112 by 152 cm., 44 by 60 in.

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Despite his apparent success as a landscape painter, winning premiums for landcapes from the newly founded Dublin Society in 1740, 1742, 1742 and 1746, landscape paintings fully attributed to Joseph Tudor are extremely rare.

Two of his paintings of the Obelisk in memory of the Battle of the Boyne correspond to an engraving made closely after the artist by John Brookes. Two other paintings have only more recently been attributed: View of Leixlip and waterfall (National Gallery of Art, Dublin) and View of Dublin from the Phoenix Park (Private Collection).

There are no known engravings after this painting. However, paint analysis has confirmed that the original signature, which has been strengthened in more recent years, is of the period and original to this painting. Stylistic comparison with the application of paint to the foliage and the foreground figures in Tudor's other known paintings (mentioned above), confirm that this is a rare autograph landscape.