Woody Landscape by a Lake

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

This romantic Italianate landscape includes a villa on a hill, with a bridge over a river and a ruined building below. In the distance a mountainous landscape can be seen. The foreground includes a family relaxing by the lake and a man fishing at the water’s edge.

Ramsay Richard Reinagle was born in London; the son of painter Philip Reinagle. He trained under his father and studied Old Masters and landscape painting in Holland and Italy (1793-98), returning with sketches of Rome, Naples and Florence. In 1801 he married Oriana Bullfinch, governess to his sisters. They had four children, including artist George Philip. He produced 360 degree panoramas for inventor Robert Barker. Reinagle was President of the Society of Painters in Watercolours (1808-12) and a full member of the Royal Academy from 1823. However, in 1835 he was declared bankrupt. Late in his career he sent a marine painting by another artist to the Academy exhibition and was forced to resign his membership. He died in Chelsea aged 87.

Places

Subjects

rowing boat, landscape C19th, genre, lake, stone/rock, woodland, man, woman, girl, family, child, bridge (rural), house, ruin, archway, oar

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Ramsay Richard Reinagle (1775 - 1862)

Title

Woody Landscape by a Lake

Date

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 69.00 cm, width: 89.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from the Wilton Gallery, February 1955

Inscription

NONE

GAC number

3157