# The Bard (Jones)

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Painting by Thomas Jones

The Bard Artist Thomas Jones Year 1774 Type Oil on canvas, historical landscape painting Dimensions 114.5 cm × 168 cm (45.1 in × 66 in) Location National Museum of Wales, Cardiff

***The Bard*** is a 1774 [oil painting](/source/Oil_painting) by the Welsh [artist](/source/Artist) [Thomas Jones](/source/Thomas_Jones_(artist)). The painting is inspired by the 1757 [poem](/source/Poem) *[The Bard](/source/The_Bard_(poem))* by the English writer [Thomas Gray](/source/Thomas_Gray).[1] [Romantic](/source/Romanticism) in style, it depicts a scene from the [Conquest of Wales by Edward I](/source/Conquest_of_Wales_by_Edward_I). A Welsh [bard](/source/Bard), clutching a [harp](/source/Harp), prepares to throw himself off a cliff after placing a curse on [Edward I](/source/Edward_I).[2]

A pupil of [Richard Wilson](/source/Richard_Wilson_(painter)), Jones was noted for his British and later Italian [landscapes](/source/Landscape_painting). Amongst other artists to produce works inspired by Gray's poem are [Benjamin West](/source/Benjamin_West)'s *The Bard* (1809) and [John Martin](/source/John_Martin_(painter))'s *[The Bard](/source/The_Bard_(Martin))* (1817).[3] The work was exhibited at the 1774 annual exhibition of the [Society of Artists](/source/Society_of_Artists_of_Great_Britain) held in [London](/source/London). [4] Today the painting is in the collection of the [National Museum of Wales](/source/National_Museum_of_Wales) in [Cardiff](/source/Cardiff), which acquired it in 1965.[5]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Evans & Fairclough p.42

1. **[^](#cite_ref-museum_2-0)** ["The Bard - Collections Online"](https://museum.wales/collections/online/object/92a7d980-aa81-3800-9206-8200a4e8ab1d/The-Bard/). *Museum Wales*. Retrieved 2025-12-20.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Haywood, Matthews & Shannon p.52

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** *The Garland Library of the History of Art: Rococo to Romanticism: Art and Architecture*. Garland Publishing, 1976. p.280

1. **[^](#cite_ref-artuk_5-0)** ["The Bard"](https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-bard-116865). *Art UK*. Retrieved 2025-12-20.

## Bibliography

- Evans, Mark & Fairclough, Oliver. *The National Museum of Wales :A Companion Guide to the National Art Gallery*. National Museum of Wales, 1993.

- Haywood, Ian, Matthews, Susan & Shannon, Mary L. (ed.) *Romanticism and Illustration*. Cambridge University Press, 2019.

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