General View of Loch Lomond, looking up the Lake from Point Misery

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Joseph Farington was born in Leigh, Lancashire, son of the vicar of Leigh and rector of Warrington. He was educated in Manchester and studied under Richard Wilson in London from 1763. He entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1769 and became an Academician in 1785. His strength was in pen, ink and wash drawings of topographical views. He made extensive sketching tours of the UK and settled in the North Country from 1776. Works made there led to the publication ‘Views of the Lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland’ (1785). In 1780 he suffered a breakdown after his wife died. In the next year he moved to London. He died on a visit to his brother in Lancashire, when he fell down steps at Didsbury Church. His personal diaries were published in 1934.

Places

Scotland, Loch Lomond, Ben Lomond, Inchmurrin

Subjects

topography, landscape C18th, lake, loch/lough, hill, Scottish, man, kilt

Materials & Techniques

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

Artist

Joseph Farington (1747 - 1821)

Title

General View of Loch Lomond, looking up the Lake from Point Misery

Date

8 October 1788

Medium

Pencil and Watercolour on paper

Dimensions

height: 37.00 cm, width: 82.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Appleby Bros, March 1975

Inscription

blc: Oct. 8 Point Misery ; bc: Jos. Farington, Octr. 8. 1788 ; pencil notes

GAC number

11851