ANTIQUE UK CIRCLE CONSTABLE FISH BOAT G BEAUMONT PAINTING LISTED ARTIST LONDON

Verlag: Pre-1800

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Medium: Oil This is an original oil on canvas painting by Sir George Howland Beaumont (British, 1753 - 1827) measuring approximately 17 x 23 inches in an ornate frame measuring approximately 29 x 35 1/2 inches. It is possibly from the late 18th century. There is craquelure throughout as pictured but stable. In different areas on the back of the frame are: 19, 278?, ir? or or? The back of the canvas appears to read "Classical Landscape." It is most likely based on a scene from the Cumbria Lake Region in England. Note the fishing pole and the men fishing. A fantastic painting. Thanks for looking at this fantastic painting. If purchased, it can be shipped and insured based on your requirements. Sir George Howland Beaumont, 7th Baronet (6 November 1753 ??7 February 1827) was a British art patron and accomplished painter. He played a crucial part in the creation of London's National Gallery by making the first bequest of paintings to that institution. His paintings appear at the Tate Gallery (63 works mostly small sketches), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, and other UK and US institutions. In the circle of John Constable and an avid collector. Born in Great Dunmow, Essex, he was the only surviving child of the landowner Sir George Beaumont, 6th Baronet, from whom he inherited the baronetcy in 1762 (see Beaumont Baronets). Beaumont was educated at Eton College, where he was taught drawing by the landscape painter Alexander Cozens. Landscape with Hagar and the Angel (Claude, 1646), Beaumont's favourite painting The first paintings to enter Beaumont's collection were by artists he knew, but a Grand Tour which he undertook in 1782 with his wife Margaret (the daughter of John Willes of Astrop, Oxon) widened his taste to include the Old Masters. On his return he began to assemble a collection of Old Master paintings despite his relatively modest means. His first important acquisition was A Landscape with Hagar and the Angel by Claude Lorrain, and this always remained his favourite painting, accompanying him on coach journeys in a specially-designed case. In 1785 Lady Beaumont inherited the lease of 34 Grosvenor Square, which provided the Beaumonts with a much-needed escape from the tedium of Dunmow and introduced them to a more diverse social circle. This circle expanded when Beaumont became Tory MP for Beer Alston in Devon from 1790 to 1796, but his enthusiasm for politics was short-lived and he soon returned to his artistic pursuits. A picture gallery was added to the house in 1792 to accommodate their growing art collection. Despite the cool reception by critics of an early work, A View of Keswick (1779), Beaumont became a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy from 1794 to 1825, eventually earning a reputation as the leading amateur painter of his day. The Beaumonts went on frequent sketching tours of the Lake District and of North Wales, necessitated by Sir George's having caught a fever during his Grand Tour. For their Welsh excursions they rented Benarth, a house near Conwy, where they were visited by Uvedale Price among others. Price had a great influence on Beaumont's taste, awakening his interest in the Picturesque movement and in Flemish and Dutch painting and landscaping the grounds at Coleorton Hall, Beaumont's country house in Leicestershire. Coleorton was later to become Beaumont's main place of residence, and was rebuilt to a design by George Dance the Younger from 1804 to 1808. A friend of the Lake Poets, with whom he considered himself a kindred spirit, Beaumont lent out the farm of the estate to William Wordsworth and his family in the winter of 1806. They were briefly joined there by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, but Beaumont was unable to establish the same rapport with this poet as with Wordsworth, who proved a lifelong friend. The 1800s saw Beaumont being promoted to influential posts in what were effectively committee. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 63907-4441

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Titel: ANTIQUE UK CIRCLE CONSTABLE FISH BOAT G ...

Verlag: Pre-1800

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