Goat Fell, Isle of Arran

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand

William Andrews Nesfield was born in Durham; the son of rector. He was educated at Winchester, Trinity College Cambridge and Woolwich, before serving in the Peninsular Wars under the Duke of Wellington. He retired from the army in 1816 and began a career as a landscape painter, making tours to the Alps in 1822/23 and to Scotland, Wales, Yorkshire, Northumbria and Ireland in 1841. From 1842 he lived near Regent's Park. Initially combining painting with landscape gardening, he eventually relinquished his work as an artist. From 1836, he produced garden designs for over 260 estates, including redesigning the arboretum and several arbors and vistas at Kew Gardens in 1844, and designing the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society in 1860.

Places

Scotland, Arran, Goat Fell

Subjects

topography, landscape C19th, bird, eagle, mountain, rock formation

Materials & Techniques

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

Artist

William Andrews Nesfield (1793 - 1881)

Title

Goat Fell, Isle of Arran

Date

1827

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Dimensions

height: 52.50 cm, width: 69.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Christie's, 22 February 1977

Inscription

sdbr

Provenance

Sold through Christie's, London, on 22 February 1977 (Lot 86); from which sale purchased by the Department of the Environment

GAC number

12903