Château de Chillon, Lake of Geneva

Location

Country: Switzerland
City: Geneva
Place: UK Mission to the United Nations

Charles Frederick Buckley, watercolour landscape painter, was probably born in Cork in Ireland. He moved to London in about 1840, but travelled around the British Isles frequently, making paintings in Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, the Lake District, North Wales, Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Ireland. Buckley exhibited at the Royal Academy and Royal Society of British Artists from 1841 to 1869. However, in 1844 he was rejected as a candidate for membership of the New Society of Painters in Watercolours. Buckley was a prolific painter and examples of his watercolours can be found at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Derby Art Gallery, Leeds City Art Gallery, Glasgow Art Gallery and Cape Town Museum in South Africa.

Places

Lake Geneva, Alps, Switzerland, Château de Chillon

Subjects

topography, landscape C19th, dog, lake, mountain, woman, basket, stone wall, path

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), watercolour (as artists materials), watercolour (as object name)

Artist

Charles Frederick Buckley (1812 - 1869)

Title

Château de Chillon, Lake of Geneva

Date

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Dimensions

height: 26.00 cm, width: 37.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Appleby Bros, March 1974

Inscription

sbl

GAC number

11062