Bellagio, Lake Como

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

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.

Places

Alps, Italy, Lake Como, Lombardy, Bellagio

Subjects

rest/sleep, topography, townscape/cityscape, lake, man, woman, cross, house, church, ruin, column, terrace, tower, sailboat

Materials & Techniques

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

Artist

James Baker Pyne (1800 - 1870)

Title

Bellagio, Lake Como

Date

1868

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Dimensions

height: 37.50 cm, width: 73.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Gilbert Davis, July 1964

Inscription

signed and dated br on column base

GAC number

1791