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Property from a Distinguished English Private Collection’

James Baker Pyne

Ennerdale Water

Lot Closed

December 8, 04:01 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

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Property from a Distinguished English Private Collection


James Baker Pyne

Bristol 1800 - 1870 London

Ennerdale Water


very indistinctly signed lower left

oil on canvas

unframed: 83.5 x 106.5 cm.; 32⅞ x 41⅞ in.

framed: 101.2 x 123.5 cm.; 39⅞ x 48⅝ in.

With Morton Morris & Co, London, 1978;
Where presumably acquired by the present owner.

Shortly after his move from Bristol to London in 1835, James Baker Pyne became a sought-after landscape painter whose style often followed that of J.M.W. Turner in terms of colour and composition. Other Lake District views by Pyne are preserved at Royal Holloway, University of London; Dove Cottage and The Wordsworth Museum, Cumbria; and in the Government Art Collection.1


1 https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/haweswater-from-waller-gill-force-12863/search/actor:pyne-james-baker-18001870/page/1/view_as/grid; https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-head-of-lake-windermere-29082/search/actor:pyne-james-baker-18001870/page/3https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/lake-windermere-from-orrest-head-143072/search/actor:pyne-james-baker-18001870/page/3