A Sense of Place
An exhibition featuring work by one of Staffordshire's most prolific and talented artists of landscapes and buildings,
Thomas Peploe Wood.
Shire Hall Gallery
Market Square, Stafford
Saturday 14th March to Sunday 10th May 2009
Open 10:00 to 17:00
(1817-1845)
Using objects and costume from the County Museum collections, this lively exhibition will place T.P. Wood's work in the context of the artistic, cultural and social world of the 1830s and 1840s.
Thomas Peploe (T.P.) Wood, was born in Little Haywood, near Stafford in 1817 and tragically died of TB at just 28 years of age. T.P. was the son of a shoemaker, self taught from an early age, collecting and copying engravings, spent most of his short life working in Staffordshire, and proved to be a talented painter of local landscapes and buildings. He was considered the most talented of the artists employed by William Salt in the 1830s and 1840s.A fellow antiquarian of William Salt, in a letter to Lord Hatherton, describes 'Mr Wood is a little irregular in his habits, I am not anxious to bring him in your lordship's presence - no more than may be necessary - but his genius is surprising.'
In 1836, local architect Thomas Trubshaw encouraged him and took him to London. He went on to exhibit at the Royal Academy and other London galleries.
Owing to his early death TP Wood never achieved the recognition deserved of such a skilful artist, surely had he lived longer he would have been ranked alongside the great English Romantic painters John Constable and J M W Turner.
Cattle on the Banks of the Trent
The Priory of St Thomas the Martyr, founded about 1174
2 miles east of Stafford on the north bank of the River Sow.
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2 miles east of Stafford on the north bank of the River Sow.
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