View of Windsor Castle
Frederick William Hulme (Swinton, North Yorkshire 1816 – London 1884)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1850
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
295 x 445 mm
Place of origin
Windsor
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 515592
Caption
The Old Lock was a popular Windsor subject because of itspicturesque qualities and the hustle and bustle continually associated with it. Hulme was taught to paint by his mother, who was a porcelain painter. In 1844 he came to London and worked as an illustrator and engraver. The subjects he exhibited at the Royal Academy and British Institution were mostly views in Surrey and North Wales, although he also painted idyllic landscapes, with rustic figures and animals. Hulme's style was noted for its unusually clear and fresh qualities, and for the similarity of his colouring to the work of Shayer and Creswick.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, View of Windsor Castle by Frederick William Hulme (Swinton, North Yorkshire 1816 – London 1884), circa 1850. Windsor with barge in right foreground, footbridge with two figures, and man working lock gates for barge, mounted figure with dog, watering horse left foreground.
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
Frederick William Hulme (Swinton, North Yorkshire 1816 – London 1884), artist