Landscape with Lightning and a Hermit

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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.

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Category	Paintings
Object type	Oil painting
Title	Landscape 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 created	May 13, 2003
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O80680/landscape-with-lightning-and-a-oil-painting-de-wint-peter/

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