Hawthornden Hall

  • About the work
    Location
    Country: Other
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  • About the artist
    Julius Caesar Ibbetson was a landscape painter in oil and watercolour, and also an illustrator and etcher. He was born in Leeds and was mostly self-trained by copying Old Masters for dealers and painting pastiches of Dutch landscapes. He also worked as a scene painter. Usually on a small scale, some of his landscapes have been compared to early Gainsborough works. While based in London from about 1784 to 1798, he accompanied distinguished patrons on UK visits and tours, including trips to Wales and the Isle of Wight. From 1799 he worked chiefly in the Lake District, before moving to Masham, North Yorkshire, in 1805, where he became the protégé of local landowner William Danby. Ibbetson published ‘Painting in Oil’ in 1803. He died aged 57.
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    canvas, oil, oil painting
  • Details
    Title
    Hawthornden Hall
    Date
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    height: 44.50 cm, width: 58.50 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Christie's, 15 May 1936
    Provenance
    With Ernest Brown & Phillips Ltd., London; by whom sold through Christie’s, London, on 15 May 1936 (Lot 142); from which sale purchased by ‘Brettel’ on behalf of the Office of Works
    GAC number
    15292