Sir George Reid PPRSA (1841–1913) - 1955 Watercolour On Ingleborough

Description

A fine mid 19th Century watercolour view of a hiking expedition on the peak of Ingleborough in the Yorkshire Dales. A large group of hikers in Victorian dress, rest on the rocks. This charming scene was painted in the artist's youth, likely on one of his first hikes. The artist has dated and inscribed the location to the lower left and marked with his monogram in orange at the lower right. The painting has been presented in a gilt and black frame with wash-line mount. On wove.

Condition

The condition is typical for a picture of this age including minor discolouration.

Size

17 x 25cm (6.7" x 9.8")
Framed Size: 33.5 x 41cm (13.2" x 16.1")

Collection Information

Ingleborough is the second-highest mountain in the Yorkshire Dales, England. It is one of the Yorkshire Three Peaks, and is frequently climbed as part of the Three Peaks walk.

Artist Biography

Reid was born in Aberdeen in 1841. He developed an early passion for drawing, which led to his being apprenticed in 1854 for seven years to Messrs Keith & Gibb, lithographers in Aberdeen. In 1861 Reid took lessons from an itinerant portrait-painter, William Niddrie and afterwards entered as a student in the school of the Board of Trustees in Edinburgh.

Reid returned to Aberdeen to paint landscapes and portraits for any trifling sum which his work could command. His first portrait to attract attention, from its fine quality, was that of George Macdonald, the poet and novelist, now the property of the University of Aberdeen. His early landscapes were conscientiously painted in the open air and on the spot. But Reid soon came to see that such work was inherently false, painted as the picture was day after day under varying conditions of light and shade. Reid went to Paris in 1868 to study under the figure painter Yvon; and he worked in 1872 with Jozef Israëls at The Hague. From this time forward Reid's success was continuous and marked.
Elected Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1870, Reid attained full membership in 1877, and took up his residence in Edinburgh, at 17 Carlton Terrace on Calton Hill, in 1882. In 1891 he was elected President - a post which he held until 1902 - receiving also the honour of knighthood, and he was awarded a gold medal at the Paris Exhibition of 1900.
In later life he lived at 22 Royal Terrace on Edinburgh's Calton Hill. He died in Somerset on 9 February 1913.

Location

Bainbridge, Leyburn, England, United Kingdom, DL8 3EL