The Bard
- Artist
- Thomas Jones
- Date
- 1774
- Style
- Romanticism
- Genre
- Landscape
'The Bard' (1774) by Thomas Jones is a poetic Romanticism oil painting inspired by Thomas Gray’s 1757 poem. Depicting a dramatic scene from the Conquest of Wales, it portrays a Welsh bard clutching a harp, about to commit suicide by leaping from a cliff after cursing Edward I. The work captures the intense emotion and individual heroism characteristic of Landscape-focused Romanticism, emphasizing nature’s grandeur and the narrative’s tragic depth.
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