Wast Water

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Department for International Trade, Old Admiralty Building

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

England, Lake District, Cumbria, Wastwater, Scafell Pike, Yewbarrow, Sca Fell, Great Gable

Subjects

topography, landscape C19th, Victorian Genre, dog, lake, mountain, river, man, woman, road, bridge (rural)

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, coloured lithograph

Artist

James Baker Pyne (1800 - 1870)

Title

Wast Water

Date

published 1853

Medium

Coloured lithograph

Dimensions

height: 33.30 cm, width: 49.80 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Agnews, November 1960

GAC number

5363