page_title: Samuel Maurice Jones
section_title: Later work
hierarchical_section_title: Samuel Maurice Jones / Later work
caption_attribution_description: English: A painting from the Framed Works of Art collection at the National Library of wales.
context_page_description: Samuel Maurice Jones R.C.A. was a Welsh landscape painter and illustrator, particularly active in North Wales. Working principally in watercolour, Jones made numerous studies and paintings of the fields near Caernarfon and the Conway Valley. Many of these rural studies have an idealised, pastoral, character suggestive of the English picturesque and Romantic landscape traditions originating in the works of John Constable and developed by J.M.W Turner.
context_section_description: Jones' watercolours of the 1880s depict conventional rural scenes featuring quaint cottages, deserted castles, shaded country lanes and rivers, and often, single, solitary figures, passing through or at work in the landscape. Such visions of country life are consistent with fashions in late Victorian landscape painting as exemplified by the works of Henry John Kinnaird, and the women artists Kate Greenaway and Helen Allingham. However, as paintings of Caernarfon street life, such as Hole in the Wall, and the carefully described exterior walls of Tan y Castell (c.1880) suggest, Jones also had a keen interest in urban architecture, engineering and building design.
caption: Tan y Castell, Dolwyddelan, c. 1880
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