Edward Train
Loch Awe and Kilchurn Castle
1856

About the Item

Loch Awe and Kilchurn Castle is a landscape oil painting on board by 19th century artist Edward Train (1801 -1866). Train was a British artist, painting mostly landscapes in northern England and, like this one, in Scotland. The painting is signed E. Train (lower left) and dated 1850 or 1856, the last number being too faint to be certain. From 1850 to 1880 Train flourished as an artist, but his work was exhibited in galleries in northeastern England and Edinburgh from the 1830s. Born in Gateshead, Tyneside, Train left to take an apprenticeship with a London engraver. In the 1830s Train traveled with an expedition to the Hebrides and Shetland Islands. Here he became fascinated with the Scottish scenery that would become part of his repertoire of landscape art. Loch Awe lies in the west of Scotland in Argyll and Bute. Kilchurn Castle, built in the 16th century, lies on a peninsula inside the Loch, on the water's edge. Train would have traveled to the Highlands and painted the dramatic scene from the east banks of Loch Awe, across from the Castle. This painting captures the Highland mountains, loch and castle that was very much the ouevre of this artist's work. Train painted the Highlands decades before other renowned landscape artists of the 19th century, such as Alfred de Breanski, Louis Bosworth Hurt, Douglas and Duncan Cameron, Henry Garland and others. Train also painted figures and portraits. In this work the figures on the east side of the loch and in the boat on the loch provide the sense of scale and proportion of the mountain and castle in the distance. Calton Gallery in Edinburgh is noted on the back of the frame. Presented in a gilded frame with stable craquelure, the painting and frame measure 20" high and 26" wide, with the painting itself measuring 13" high by 18" wide. This painting was imported to the US, and lightly cleaned by Saltire Gallerie. There are no apparent restorations, and the painting is in a good condition, consistent with its age.

Creator:

Edward Train (1801 - 1866, British)

Creation Year:

1856

Dimensions:

Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 26 in (66.04 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)

Medium:

Oil,Board

Movement & Style:

Naturalistic

Period:

1850-1859