Landscape with Causeway: View of the Kyle of Tongue from the west, showing the causeway with Ben Tongue in the distance

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Peter de Wint was born in Hanley, Staffordshire, the son of a Dutch physician. In 1802, he moved to London and was apprenticed to John Raphael Smith. In 1806, he negotiated an early release from his apprenticeship and, in the following year, exhibited three landscapes at the Royal Academy. Two years later he entered the Royal Academy schools. He was elected a member of the Society of Painters in Watercolour in 1811 and would exhibit over 400 paintings at their premises. In 1810 de Wint married Harriet Hilton, sister of the painter William Hilton, and all three lived together in Soho until 1827, when the de Wints moved to Bloomsbury. De Wint made extensive annual tours of the UK throughout his career. He died from severe bronchitis in 1849.

Places

Scotland, Highland, Tongue (place name), Ben Tongue, Kyle of Tongue

Subjects

rowing boat, topography, landscape C19th, genre, lake, mountain, causeway, man, oar

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Peter de Wint (1784 - 1849)

Title

Landscape with Causeway: View of the Kyle of Tongue from the west, showing the causeway with Ben Tongue in the distance

Date

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 53.00 cm, width: 124.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Oscar & Peter Johnson, August 1965

Provenance

With Oscar & Peter Johnson, London; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in August 1965

GAC number

7076