| Mendicants of the Roman Campagna | |
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| Artist | Edward Villiers Rippingille. |
| Year | 1840 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, genre painting |
| Dimensions | 36.8 cm× 57.3 cm(14.5 in× 22.6 in) |
| Location | Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
Mendicants of the Roman Campagna is an 1840 genre painting by the British artist Edward Villiers Rippingille. [1] [2] It depicts a view of the Roman Campagna in Lazio near Rome with a picturesque view of the rural poor. Rippingille made his name as part of the Bristol School producing genre scenes of ordinary life in the Regency era, and later travelled abroad frequently. [3]
The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1844 held at the National Gallery, where the artist complained about its poor positioning. It was acquired by the art collector John Sheepshanks who in 1857 donated it to the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington. [4]
