Langdale Pikes

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Department for International Trade, Old Admiralty Building

Landscape painter James Baker Pyne was born in Bristol, where he worked as a self-taught artist until the age of 35. He gave painting lessons to William James Müller, who later became an artist of repute. In 1835 Pyne moved to London, exhibiting his work at the Royal Academy, British Institution and New Watercolour Society over two decades. In his early period he painted views and scenery around Bristol but after 1835 he travelled to Italy and elsewhere on the Continent, gathering material to work up into finished pictures. Pyne was an admirer and imitator of Turner; his dramatic effects and use of pale yellow tones reflecting Turner's influence. Today, his records of works produced from 1840 to 1868 are in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
William Gauci was a lithographer, mainly of landscape views after the designs of his contemporaries. Gauci was based in London and his father, M. Gauci, and brother, Paul Gauci, also worked as lithographers. William collaborated with his brother on the production of several prints. In 1831 ‘Arnold's Magazine of the Fine Arts’ commented: ‘William Gauci is a landscape draughtsman; but his style is monotonous; he has however lately obtained more brilliancy than formerly distinguished his works.’

Places

England, Lake District, Cumbria, Blea Tarn, Langdale, Langdale Pikes

Subjects

topography, landscape C19th, tree, cloud, lake, mountain, stream, hill, stone/rock, cliff, man

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, coloured lithograph

Artist

James Baker Pyne (1800 - 1870)
William Gauci

Title

Langdale Pikes

Date

published 1853

Medium

Coloured lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from Baynton-Williams, January 1976

GAC number

12145