Landscape with a Lake, Cattle and a Figure on Horseback
Charles Towne (Wigan 1763 – Liverpool 1840)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1763 - 1840
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1470 x 1525 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Treasurer's House, North Yorkshire
NT 593123
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Landscape with a Lake, Cattle and a Figure on Horseback by Charles Towne (Wigan 1763 – Liverpool 1840). Signed 'CT' (in monogram). An extensive view of a valley with distant hills; in the foreground a horesman is passing a drover with his cows. It has been suggested it may be a version of Turner's images of Hornby in the Lune Valley, North Lancashire.
Provenance
Court Room 1909-date; gift of Francis 'Frank' William Green FSA (1861-1954) in 1930
Credit line
Treasurer’s House, York, The Frank Green Gift (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
CT (signed monogram)
Makers and roles
Charles Towne (Wigan 1763 – Liverpool 1840), publisher