Place
Colombo
2 pieces on this site concern this place.
- Charles Freegrove Winzer: the architect of modern art in Ceylon
Charles Freegrove Winzer represented Poland at the Venice Biennale at twenty-one and counted Matisse a friend. In Ceylon he turned the younger painters away from the Royal Academy manner and towards a modern art rooted in the island. The heritage he taught them to value was the same heritage he helped remove.
- Belfast's finest in Ceylon: the story of Andrew Nicholl
Andrew Nicholl reached Ceylon in 1846 as the first teacher of landscape and scientific drawing at the Colombo Academy. A five week tour of the interior with Emerson Tennent gave him his sketches, and the rebellion of the following year came close to costing him his life.