Painting of the Week - Sir Charles James Lawton Wingate
Swans Nest Landscape
This lovely Scottish Victorian Impressionist landscape oil painting is by noted artist Sir Charles Lawton Wingate. It was painted in 1880 and exhibited 1882 at the Royal Academy London entitled A Swan's Nest Amongst the Reeds. The composition is a river landscape with two swans in the foreground, one on a nest on the edge of a reeded bank. There is a wooded landscape running along the edge of the river and the season looks to be early spring with some trees beginning to come in to leaf and others still bare. The reeds and bullrushes are still white from dying back in winter but there is some lovely vivid greens as well. There are beautiful reflections of the sky in the water and some great brushwork. This is a charming Scottish Impressionist 19th century oil painting and a lovely example of Wingate's work.
Signed lower.
Provenance Exhibited: Royal Academy London, 1882 no. 727 entitled A Swan's Nest Amongst the Reeds.
Label verso.
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