Derwent River and Borrowdale

James Baker Pyne (1800 - 1870)

Coloured lithograph

1853
  • About the work
    Location
    Country: Other
    City: other locations abroad
  • About the artist
    Landscape painter James Baker Pyne was born in Bristol, where he worked as a self-taught artist until the age of 35. He gave painting lessons to William James Müller, who later became an artist of repute. In 1835 Pyne moved to London, exhibiting his work at the Royal Academy, British Institution and New Watercolour Society over two decades. In his early period he painted views and scenery around Bristol but after 1835 he travelled to Italy and elsewhere on the Continent, gathering material to work up into finished pictures. Pyne was an admirer and imitator of Turner; his dramatic effects and use of pale yellow tones reflecting Turner's influence. Today, his records of works produced from 1840 to 1868 are in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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  • Details
    Title
    Derwent River and Borrowdale
    Date
    1853
    Medium
    Coloured lithograph
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Parker Gallery, January 1976
    GAC number
    12169