George Melvin Rennie

Isle of Arran, Brodick and Goatfell

early 20th century

Exhibition-sized painting of Iona Island coast by celebrated Scottish artist Duncan Cameron (1837-1916), this is a large and expansive 19th century landscape oil painting on canvas. Renowned for his landscape paintings, this work captures the natural light on the sea, sand and rocks with splashes of rich color under a big sky. Iona off the west coast of Scotland, has attracted artists for for its dramatic scenery and northern light, including the Scottish Colourists who favored the fresh pure light. The cliffs and coastal rocks are reminiscent of works by Samuel Peploe and Duncan Fergusson of this fabled island. In 1876 Cameron won a Gold Medal for landscape painting, at the Crystal Palace exhibition. The year after this painting (circa 1870s) Cameron began exhibiting in the Royal Academy, Society of British Artists, and Royal Scottish Academy, showing his work consistently from 1880. Other venues for exhibiting his work include the Glasgow Institute, Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, Manchester City Art Gallery, and the Royal Hibernian Academy. His work is sold today in Fine Art Galleries in the UK and in Saltire Gallerie, USA. His landscape paintings are widely acclaimed, and this landscape painting of considerable size and detail is a fine example. Born in Perthshire, Cameron studied in Dundee and in South Kensington, London. He later died in Edinburgh. The highest auction sale of his work reached nearly 20,000 GBP. He was widely acclaimed as a landscape artist, painting Scottish farmlands and haystacks, coastal scenes and lochs. In this work the colors of the sea change from blue to green with white crests of waves. The rocks have splashes of red, rust and orange, and the beach has red and green in the sand. Water laps at the edge of beach and rock. A sailboat is a focal point, with distant sailboats on the water, and a rowboat by the central sailboat. A hill rises behind the beach painted...

Fine painting by renowned and award-winning Scottish artist Duncan Cameron of his favorite subject, the haystacks in autumn with the scenic Scottish cou...

William Westall (1781-1850), served as an artist at age 19 on the Investigator ship, exploring Africa and Australia, then China and India, and another journey to Madeira and Jamaica....

Fine landscape painting, oil on canvas of Snowdonia, Wales by 19th century British artist Thomas Huson, RI, RA. Rushing rapids from a lake, mountain landscape and clouded skies, and...

Danish Painter School J Beney? J. Brady? signed and dated lower left 1868 Songbird in a snowy underground

Vincenzo Caprile (Naples 1856 - 1936), Labia Palace, Grand Canal, Venice Oil painting on canvas by 36 x 24 cm signed and located Venice lower left.

With this painting von Morisse portrays a young man swimming peacefully in a green water Lake with his head above the water. It symbolizes the 90% of the ...

Framed Size: 59 x 81 x 1 3/4 inches; Painting Size: 50 x 72 x 1 3/4 in. The work is in a mahogany stained wood frame that was custom designed by the artist. Signed on the Reverse. This work is from the artist earlier works from the late 1990's. It was exhibited in 2000 at James Graham...