A Rocky North Cornish Coast
Arthur Hughes (London 1832 - Kew 1915)
National Trust Inventory Number 622750
| Category |
Paintings |
| Date |
1889 - 1892 |
| Materials |
Oil on board |
| Measurements |
266 x 445 mm |
| Place of origin |
Cornwall |
| Collection |
Borrowdale, Cumbria |
| Not on show |
|
Summary description
Oil painting on board, A Rocky North Cornish Coast by Arthur Hughes (London 1832 - Kew 1915), signed, lower right 'ARTHUR HUGHES', 1889/1892. A calm sea with a rocky promontory to right; a grassy cliff top in the left foreground. .
Provenance
Purchased, along with two of them unidentified, for £60 in August 1895 by an unknown patron; gifted by hinm in 1895 to Sir (Arthur) Norman Hill; thence in 1944 to his daughter Beatrice ; bequeathed/given in 1980 to National Trust by Beatrice Hill (d.1983).
Marks and inscriptions
ARTHUR HUGHES
Makers and roles
Arthur Hughes (London 1832 - Kew 1915), artist
References
Roberts 1997 Leonard Roberts, Arthur Hughes, Woodbridge 1997
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