Lake Scene with Boat and Figures
James Baker Pyne (Bristol 1800 – London 1870)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1828 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
280 x 355 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 515527
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Lake Scene with Boat and Figures by James Baker Pyne (Bristol 1800 – London 1870), signed PYNE 28. Imaginary landscape with high mountains, a decorated sailing vessel with figures, moored on the lake on the right, one figure is standing, fishing. Two tall pines in the centre, dividing the painting, with rocky mountains to left and right on the left the artist wearing a hat, is seated on the ground, sketching and standing to the left of him is a lady dressed in red with a blue scarf and holding a parasol; behind her to the left, on the ground, some sketch-pads. Long shadows thrown by the pine trees across the grass. A golden glow over the scene. Label on back 'W. Boswell and Son, Experts and Valuers of Fine Art, St Ethelbert House, Norwich'.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust by Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) with the house and the rest of the contents.
Credit line
Anglesey Abbey, The Fairhaven Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
James Baker Pyne (Bristol 1800 – London 1870), artist