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Edmund John NiemannWelsh Mountain
River, Nocturne, Landscape Painting, English Oil Painting1869
1869
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This atmospheric late 19th-century oil painting by English artist Walter Heath Williams (fl.1841-1876) depicts a moonlit Welsh mountain landscape with a river.
The composition is anchored by a strongly observed foreground of moss-covered rocks, rendered with tactile realism as moonlight strikes their damp surfaces, establishing a sense of physical certainty and proximity.
Beyond this, the landscape begins to dissolve. A river threads through the middle distance, its surface merging almost imperceptibly with low-lying mist. The mountains themselves are partially veiled, their forms softened and obscured by cloud vapour. Rather than clarifying distance, the moonlight withdraws it, allowing the land to recede into suggestion rather than definition.
Williams here brings together two complementary impulses. The foreground speaks in the language of naturalism - observed, and weighted - while the distant landscape moves toward a restrained romanticism, enriched with a sense of mystery. The mist acts as a mediator between earth and sky, erasing firm boundaries and lending the scene a quiet sense of introspection.
The result is a landscape that feels both inhabited and unknowable: a place firmly underfoot, yet resistant to full comprehension. This synthesis of careful observation with atmospheric ambiguity marks the work as one of maturity and places it among the more compelling nocturnal landscapes of Williams’ career.
Signed and dated lower left. Held in a later gilt frame with scrolling foliage, corner cartouches, and a centred crest ornament.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Overall size: 49” x 31” / 124cm x 78cm
Year of creation: 1869
Provenance: Private collection, UK.
Artist’s auction maximum: £15,400 for ‘Durdle Door/The Path To The Sea (1881)’, Oil on canvas (2), Phillips, Early British And Victorian Paintings, London, 23 Jan 1996 (lot 150).
Our reference: BRV2259
- Creator:Edmund John Niemann (1813 - 1876, British)
- Creation Year:1869
- Dimensions:Height: 31 in (78.74 cm)Width: 49 in (124.46 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)
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- Condition:Cleaned. Canvas relined. Faint stretcher marks. Later stretcher. Craquelure throughout. The paint layer is stable. Frame in good condition with minor age-related wear.
- Gallery Location:Cheltenham, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2328217486832
Edmund John Niemann
Edmund John Niemann was a prolific and highly successful British landscape artist working mostly in oils. Niemann was born in Islington in 1813. Nine of his paintings are held in the Wolverhampton art gallery. Between 1844–72, he exhibited paintings at a wide range of prestigious galleries, including the Royal Academy of Arts, the British Institution, the Society of British Artists in Suffolk Street, the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Institute, the Glasgow Institute, the Paris Salon, the Liverpool Academy of Arts and the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts. His first picture exhibition was at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1844, exhibiting, On the Thames, near Great Marlow, Bucks, a small canvas. Niemann died on April 15, 1876, in Brixton Hill.
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