Louis Bosworth Hurt

Richard Green, London;
Private Collection

The canvas has been lined. There are some very minor spots of surface dirt in isolated places. Otherwise in good condition, generally clean and ready to hang. Ultraviolet light reveals some very light spots of retouching to the sky area and one or two very minor suggestions elsewhere. Held in a decorative gold painted frame in fair condition.
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Louis Bosworth Hurt is best known for his evocative paintings of placid and beautiful West Highland cattle. The present work After the Storm, Glen Dochart, Perthshire is a wonderful example of the artist at the height of his career. The highland cattle in the present work are on the old drover's road from the Isles to the autumn cattle market in Stirling. The mountain in the centre of the composition is Ben More with Coire Chaorach rising up into the dramatic mist alongside it to the left. Bosworth Hurt's poetic paintings capture the very essence of the beauty of the wilder parts of Scotland, as though affectionately remembered from a pleasant stroll, picnic or a day stalking. Unlike other artists who painted the awesome and foreboding Highlands, Bosworth Hurt's landscapes have the power of dramatic suggestion coupled with a truly sensitive appreciation of beauty, making his painting so delightful and engaging. Hurt was born in Ashbourne in Derbyshire in 1856 and though he did from time to time paint on the Derbyshire moors, he preferred the wilderness of the northern Highlands. A prolific painter, Hurt exhibited thirteen paintings from 1881 at the Royal Academy in London and twenty-six at the Royal Society of Artists on Suffolk Street. His paintings were predominantly of Highland cattle, or very occasionally of sheep, and fine examples of his work can be found in several public collections, including Manchester City Art Gallery and Reading City Art Gallery.