Extensive View of Edinburgh from the Forth

Location

Country: Turkey
City: Istanbul
Place: British Consulate-General

Watercolour painter and engraver Charles Bentley is best-known for painting breezy scenes off the English coast. He was born in London; the son of a master carpenter. Bentley was apprenticed to printmaker Theodore Fielding and later spent time in Paris with Theodore’s brother, watercolourist Newton Fielding. From 1827 Bentley made a modest living as an engraver and illustrator. He was elected a member of the Society of Painters in Water Colours (1843) and exhibited 209 works from 1834 to his death. He was a friend of artist William Callow; with whom he made several sketching trips, including a tour of Normandy (1841). The two shared a home in Charlotte Street, Bloomsbury, from 1843 to 1846. Bentley died in Hampstead, at the age of 48.

Places

Scotland, Edinburgh, River Forth, Arthur's Seat, Firth of Forth

Subjects

topography, townscape/cityscape, mountain, river, cliff, harbour, house, spire, steamboat, sailboat

Materials & Techniques

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

Artist

Charles Bentley (1806 - 1854)

Title

Extensive View of Edinburgh from the Forth

Date

c.1830

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Dimensions

height: 13.30 cm, width: 38.80 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Appleby Bros, February 1976

Inscription

bl: Chas Bentley R.W.S.

GAC number

12204