Thomas Jones - An Imaginary Coast Scene, with the Temple of Venus at Baiae - Google Art Project

Thomas Jones was a Welsh landscape artist of considerable talent and inventiveness. His life was a grand mixture of lost hopes with a realistic assessment of his own achievements. Thomas Jones was apprenticed to the Welsh artist, Richard Wilson in March 1763, and was shortly joined by Joseph Faringdon. In later life both men kept detailed diaries and their manuscripts are today probably the most important artists' writings of the eighteenth century.