Porlock Weir, un paese nel Somerset, è il titolo del dipinto che l’artista inviò da un recapito di Liverpool alla Royal Academy nel 1881. Questo suggerisce che Rotta abbia compiuto un viaggio oltremanica nel 1880.

Porlock Weir, a village in Somerset, is the title of a painting the artist sent from a Liverpool address to the Royal Academy in 1881. This suggests that he probably crossed the Channel in 1880.

(?) 1880: Somerset.

Agnew Thomas, Gambart Ernest, McLean Henry, McLean Thomas M., Wallis Thomas

Brunswick Street, Liverpool (1881)

Liverpool (1882), Londra (1874, 1878, 1879, 1881, 1882, 1884, 1887, 1892, 1903, 1904, 1905)

E.F.S. Pattison, The Collection of M. Gambart at Les Palmiers, Nice, in “The Athenaeum”, 1876, p. 278.

s.a., The Royal Academy. The one hundred and thirteenth Exhibition,1881, in “The Art Journal”, 1881, p. 213.

s.a., Pictures of the Year, IV, in “The Magazine of Art”, vol. IV, 1881, p. 400.

red., Directory of Artists, in “The Year’s Art”, 1882, ad vocem.

s.a., The Chronicle of Art. Art in April, in “The Magazine of Art”, vol. VII, 1884, p. xxvi.

s.a., The Chronicle of Art. Art in May, in “The Magazine of Art”, vol.  IX, 1886, p. xxxvi.

s.a., McLean’s Spring Exhibition, in “The Art Journal”, 1887, p. 157.

s.a., The Chronicle of Art. Art in April, in “The Magazine of Art”, vol. X, 1887, p .xxvi.

s.a., The Chronicle of Art. Art in June, in “The Magazine of Art”, vol.X, 1887, p. xxxv.

A. Graves, A Dictionary of Artists who have exhibited Works at the Principal London Exhibitions from 1870 to 1893, Londra 1901 (ristampa 1973), ad vocem.

A. Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts. A complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904, Londra 1905, vol. VI (ristampa 1970), ad vocem.

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