Derwentwater
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About the work
- Location
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Country: UK
City: London
Place: Ministry of Defence, other locations
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About the artist
George Howland Beaumont was brought up in Suffolk where he met landscape artists Thomas Hearne and Joseph Farington. Both Hearne and Farington had a considerable influence upon him and joined him on his honeymoon in the Lake District in 1778. Beaumont established a well merited reputation as an art patron, befriending Constable, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Scott amongst others. His house in Grosvenor Square became a focal point for people from the worlds of art and politics. Beaumont was one of the principal founders and benefactors of the National Gallery. His drawings have a romantic, 18th-century manner and show the influence of Claude and Wilson.
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Explore
- Places
- England, Lake District, Cumbria, Derwentwater
- Subjects
- horseback, topography, landscape C19th, tree, horse, lake, valley, bridge (rural)
- Materials & Techniques
- canvas, oil, oil painting
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Details
- Title
- Derwentwater
- Date
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- height: 74.00 cm, width: 98.00 cm
- Acquisition
- Purchased from Spink & Son, November 1953
- GAC number
- 2366