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Landscape with Lightning and a Hermit

Oil Painting
ca. 1812-1816 (painted)
Artist/Maker
De Wint, Peter (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (painted)

Hermits, living in the wilderness, apart from society, were a popular theme with 18th-century landscape painters. Most of De Wint's pictures are calm and even. This more dramatic work is reminiscent of the Neapolitan master Salvator Rosa (1615-1673), who was popular with English collectors.

Object details

Category
Paintings
Object type
Oil painting
TitleLandscape with Lightning and a Hermit (popular title)
Materials and techniques
oil on canvas
Oil Paint
Canvas
Oil Painting
Brief description
Oil painting, 'Landscape with Lighting and a Hermit', Peter de Wint, ca. 1812-1816
Physical description
Oil painting
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 74.3cm
  • Estimate width: 104.1cm
  • Height: 98cm (Frame dimensions)
  • Width: 127cm (Frame dimensions)
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990
Style
British School
Credit line
Given by Mrs Helen Tatlock, daughter of the artist
Object history
Given by Mrs Helen Tatlock, daughter of the artist, 1872
Subjects depicted
Picturesque
Parody
Storm
Hermit
Landscape
Summary
Hermits, living in the wilderness, apart from society, were a popular theme with 18th-century landscape painters. Most of De Wint's pictures are calm and even. This more dramatic work is reminiscent of the Neapolitan master Salvator Rosa (1615-1673), who was popular with English collectors.
Bibliographic references
  • Parkinson, R., Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 69
  • Evans, Mark et al. Vikutoria & Arubāto Bijutsukan-zō : eikoku romanshugi kaigaten = The Romantic tradition in British painting, 1800-1950 : masterpieces from the Victoria and Albert Museum. Japan : Brain Trust, 2002
  • p. 103 David Jackson, Werner Busch, Jenny Reynaerts, Andreas Blühm, and Ruud Schenk Romanticism in the North : from Friedrich to Turner. Groningen : Groninger Museum ; Zwolle : WBooks, [2017]. ISBN: 9789462582415
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
259-1872

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Record createdMay 13, 2003
Record URL
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