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Robert McGowan Coventry
Highland Landscape - Scottish Victorian art oil painting Scotland

Circa 1890

About the Item

This gorgeous Scottish Victorian landscape oil painting is by noted artist Robert McGown Coventry, also known as Robert Coventry. Painted circa 1890 it is a spring Highland landscape of which he was particularly fond. In the foreground a stream rushes over boulders and the roots of trees towards the viewer. To its right, sheep and lambs graze and beyond are majestic snow clad mountains beneath a blustery light sky. The vivid greens and orange tones are superb and the brushwork in the racing stream really portrays the water's movement. This is a beautiful painting, really pleasing to the eye and makes one want to go for a country walk, preferably in the Highlands! Signed R.M.G COVENTRY ARSA lower centre. Provenance. Wiltshire estate. Condition. Oil on canvas, 36 inches by 28 inches and in good condition. Frame. Housed in a gallery frame, 43 inches by 35 inches, in good condition. Robert McGowan Coventry (1855–1914) was born in Glasgow and trained at the Glasgow School of Art and in Paris. He travelled on the Continent and to the Middle East but found most of his subject matter in the fishing communities of Scotland and in the Scottish Highlands. He was not closely associated with the group of young painters known as the Glasgow Boys, but shared their interest in rustic realism, in painting in the open air, and in French-inspired tonal and compositional technique. He was based in Glasgow throughout his professional life. 1 In 1889 he became a member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour and in 1906 was elected associate of the Royal Scottish Academy, exhibiting regularly with both organisations and with the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.
  • Creator:
    Robert McGowan Coventry
  • Creation Year:
    Circa 1890
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 35 in (88.9 cm)Width: 43 in (109.22 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
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  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    London, GB
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU853115728472

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