Derwent River and Borrowdale

Location

Country: Other
City: other locations abroad

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

cart, topography, landscape C19th, tree, horse, snow, mountain, river bank, river, stone/rock, road, tent/marquee

Materials & Techniques

coloured lithograph

Artist

James Baker Pyne (1800 - 1870)

Title

Derwent River and Borrowdale

Date

1853

Medium

Coloured lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from Parker Gallery, January 1976

GAC number

12169