John William Inchbold (1830-1888)

Lake of Geneva: looking West near Territet

Details

John William Inchbold (1830-1888)
Lake of Geneva: looking West near Territet
signed 'J.W.Inchbold.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
14 x 20¾ in. (35.5 x 52.7 cm.)

Provenance

with Peter Nahum at the Leicester Gallery, 2003, no. 16.

Literature

William Michael Rossetti, 1857, m.s., Yale University Library.
A. Staley, The Pre-Raphaelite Landscape, Yale, 2001, pp. 158, 166.

Exhibited

Leeds, Leeds City Art Galleries, John William Inchbold, Pre- Raphaelite Landscape Artist, 1993, number untraced.
Cardiff, National Museums and Galleries of Wales, Victorian Dreamers, October 2005-January 2006, number untraced.

Sale room notice

Please note that the women in the picture are picking narcissi: those in bonnets to the left are carrying the flowers down to Montreux for sale.

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Lot Essay

Inchbold was first inspired to visit Switzerland by John Ruskin, an early patron. He retired near Montreux on the North side of Lake Geneva to live out the last eight years of his life painting pictures which, according to Christopher Newall, 'abandon all sense of chronological sequence or topographical significance in favour of purely aesthetic qualities which address ... the spectator in a strongly sensuous way'.

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