Pirara and Lake Amucu, the Site of El Dorado

Charles Bentley (1806 - 1854)
George Barnard ( - 1890)

Colour lithograph

published 3 August 1840

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: UK
    City: London
    Place: Government Art Collection


  • About the artist
    Watercolour painter and engraver Charles Bentley is best-known for painting breezy scenes off the English coast. He was born in London; the son of a master carpenter. Bentley was apprenticed to printmaker Theodore Fielding and later spent time in Paris with Theodore’s brother, watercolourist Newton Fielding. From 1827 Bentley made a modest living as an engraver and illustrator. He was elected a member of the Society of Painters in Water Colours (1843) and exhibited 209 works from 1834 to his death. He was a friend of artist William Callow; with whom he made several sketching trips, including a tour of Normandy (1841). The two shared a home in Charlotte Street, Bloomsbury, from 1843 to 1846. Bentley died in Hampstead, at the age of 48.
    Illustrator and lithographer George Barnard was a pupil of artist James Duffield Harding. Barnard exhibited his work from 1832 to 1884 at the Royal Academy, British Institution, Society of Artists and the New Water Colour Society. In 1857 he published ‘The Theory and Practice of Landscape Painting in Watercolours’. By 1853 Barnard had been appointed Professor of Drawing at Rugby. His published works include six plates for ‘Reminiscences of Hastings’ (c.1839) and 27 for ‘Switzerland, Scenes and Incidents of Travel in the Bernese Oberland’ (1843). He also published several manuals on drawing and painting, including ‘The Handbook of Foliage and Foreground Drawing’ (1853) and ‘Drawing from Nature: A Series of Instructions in Sketching’ (1865).
  • Explore
    Places
    South America, Guyana, Lake Amucu
    Subjects
    topography, landscape C19th, Victorian Genre, tree, palm, dog, lake, mountain, baby, man, woman, house, hut
    Materials & Techniques
    lithograph, colour lithograph
  • Details
    Artist
    Charles Bentley (1806 - 1854)
    George Barnard ( - 1890)
    Title
    Pirara and Lake Amucu, the Site of El Dorado
    Date
    published 3 August 1840
    Medium
    Colour lithograph
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Parker Gallery, November 1956
    GAC number
    3633