Landscape near Ambleside

Location

Country: Italy
City: Rome
Place: British Embassy

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.

Places

England, Lake District, Cumbria

Subjects

shepherd, topography, landscape C19th, tree, sheep, mist/fog, mountain, river, mountainous, man, staff, bridge (rural), house, wall, tower

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

James Baker Pyne (1800 - 1870)

Title

Landscape near Ambleside

Date

1844

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 68.50 cm, width: 99.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Sotheby's, 6 July 1955

Inscription

br: JB PYNE 1844 No 90 [?]

Provenance

Collection of Lady Holland; sold through Sotheby's, London, ‘Eighteenth Century and Modern Drawings and Paintings’ sale, on 6 July 1955 (Lot 162); from which sale purchased by Leggatt Bros. on behalf of the Ministry of Works

GAC number

3235