About This Artwork
Agostino Brunias
British, active 1752-1810
View on the River Roseau, Dominica1770/80
Oil on canvas
33 1/8 x 62 3/16 in. (84.1 x 158 cm)
Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne, 1953.14
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, Selected Works of Eighteenth-Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1976, cat. 22.
Publication History
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 61.
Hans Huth, "Agostino Brunias, Romano: Robert Adam's 'Bred Painter'," Connoisseur 151 (December 1962), p. 296, fig. 6.
Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1996), pp. 198–200, ill.
Ownership History
Emily Crane Chadbourne, Stone Ridge, New York by 1952; given to the Art Institute, 1953.