Windsor Castle from the Thames
James Baker Pyne (Bristol 1800 – London 1870)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1838 (signed and dated) - 1839
Materials
Coloured lithograph on paper
Measurements
310 x 450 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 516222.7
Caption
Painted and signed ‘JB Pyne' in 1838, this winter scene shows people skating on the River Thames with Windsor Castle in the background. Self-taught, James Baker Pyne became an important landscape painter and was a follower of JMW Turner.
Summary
Coloured lithograph on paper, Windsor Castle from the Thames, by James Baker Pyne (Bristol 1800 – London 1870), signed and dated, lower right 1838. Winter scene with figures skating on river, castle beyond. Mounted on paper. One of nine, from an original set of 13, 1838-9.
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
Angleset Abbey, The Fairhaven Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
James Baker Pyne (Bristol 1800 – London 1870), artist