Moorland

  • About the work
    Location
    Country: Italy
    City: Rome
    Place: British Embassy

    When this work was exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, in 1809, a reviewer writing for ‘The Graphic’, commented : ‘Mr. C. H. H. McCartney’s spacious ‘Moorland’ and Mr. Niels M. Lund’s ‘The Land o’ the Leal,’ showing the junction of two rapidly rushing rivers, are remarkably good works, combining accurate landscape draughtsmanship with atmospheric truth of effect’.

    While another reviewer for the ‘Dundee Advertiser’, commented: ‘C. H. H. McCartney’s ‘Moorland’ is full of tender charm’.

  • About the artist
    Carlile Henry Hayes Macartney, barrister, landscape artist and horologist, was born in Naples. He married Louisa Gardiner and is known to have travelled on the continent and in the Middle East. He lived at addresses in London until 1891, when he moved to Kent. By 1893 he was living at Foxhold, Crookham in Berkshire. Macartney exhibited works at the Dudley Gallery, the Grosvenor Gallery, the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Manchester City Art Gallery and at the Royal Academy, London. He died at Crookham in 1924. Today, portraits by Macartney are in the collections of the British Dental Association Museum and the Royal Society of Medicine, London. A watercolour landscape by him is in the Tate Collection, London.
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  • Details
    Title
    Moorland
    Date
    1890
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    height: 106.50 cm, width: 166.50 cm
    Acquisition
    Presented by the artist's son, 1973
    Inscription
    sdbl
    Provenance
    Frederick Searer, Edenbridge; Presented by Dr C A Macartney
    GAC number
    11121