The Falls of Foyers

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

William Andrews Nesfield was born in Durham; the son of rector. He was educated at Winchester, Trinity College Cambridge and Woolwich, before serving in the Peninsular Wars under the Duke of Wellington. He retired from the army in 1816 and began a career as a landscape painter, making tours to the Alps in 1822/23 and to Scotland, Wales, Yorkshire, Northumbria and Ireland in 1841. From 1842 he lived near Regent's Park. Initially combining painting with landscape gardening, he eventually relinquished his work as an artist. From 1836, he produced garden designs for over 260 estates, including redesigning the arboretum and several arbors and vistas at Kew Gardens in 1844, and designing the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society in 1860.

Places

Scotland, Highland, River Foyers, Falls of Foyers

Subjects

topography, landscape C19th, tree, rock formation, stone/rock, waterfall, man

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), watercolour (as artists materials), watercolour (as object name)

Artist

William Andrews Nesfield (1793 - 1881)

Title

The Falls of Foyers

Date

1827

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Dimensions

height: 113.00 cm, width: 70.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Christie's, 14 December 1976

Inscription

Itl&Dbr

Provenance

Sold through Christie's, London, on 14 December 1976 (Lot 66); from which sale purchased by the Department of the Environment

GAC number

12668