Scene in the lake District

Location

Country: UK
City: England
Place: Wiston House, Foreign Office, Wilton Park

This view was previously titled ‘Derwentwater’.

Landscapist George Frederick Buchanan was based in Edinburgh when he first exhibited at the Scottish Academy in 1841. He had moved to Glasgow by 1842 and to London in 1848, although his subjects remained mostly Scottish landscapes. He then exhibited at the Royal Academy, British Institution and Society of British Artists in London, and at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, and the Glasgow Institute. He moved regularly to different addresses, living in Mayfair, the City and Belsize Park, to escape creditors. In 1854 he appeared at the ‘Court of Relief of Insolvent Debtors’ in Lincoln’s Inn and in 1861 was imprisoned at the ‘Debtor’s Prison for London and Middlesex’, when his estate and effects were seized. He exhibited nothing after 1865.

Places

England, Lake District, Cumbria

Subjects

topography, landscape C19th, sunlight, mountain, hill, stone/rock, valley, man

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

George Frederick Buchanan

Title

Scene in the lake District

Date

c.1850

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 56.00 cm, width: 76.30 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Appleby Bros, November 1974

Provenance

Sold through Bonhams, London, 'Important English and Continental Paintings' sale, on 27 June 1974 (Lot 61; with GAC 11689), as 'Scottish Landscape', for £500; with Appleby's; from whom purchased by the Department of the Environment in November 1974

GAC number

11687