By Joseph Henderson
Located in Hagley, England
A fine, large Scottish landscape oil on canvas by Joseph Henderson RSA which is signed and dated 1877. It depicts rolling mist enveloping a mountainous Loch with mother and daughter picking wild flowers. A stunning painting. Signed left.
Provenance. Private purchase.
Framed in a fine 19th century frame 42 by 36 inches. In excellent condition.
Joseph Henderson RSW (1832-1908) was a Scottish landscape painter, genre painter, portrait painter and marine painter. His genre was particularly painting working men such as shepherds, crofters, peddlers, cobblers, fishermen and farm labourers. However he also painted Scottish country and coastal scenery. Henderson studied at the Trustees Academy in Edinburgh and started to work as a portrait painter but having done so for about twenty years he discovered his true vocation which was marine painting. He marvelled the painting of the sea in all its different conditions and light. He exhibited his work at the Royal Scottish Academy and at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. He also exhibited at the Royal Academy in London from 1871 to 1886 and in Suffolk Street Galleries from 1882 to 1884. He was the President of the Glasgow Art Club, in which city he settled in 1852. Henderson married three times: in 1855, Helen Cosh; in 1869, Helen Young...
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19th Century Impressionist Joseph Henderson R.S.W Art