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Lot Essay
Disillusioned by his failure to be elected an Associate of the Royal Academy, and by the unfavourable way in which his pictures had been hung in the exhibition of 1867, Leader left in the summer of that year for a tour of the Lake District. Like North Wales, the Lake District, with its literary associations, was enjoying a renewed popularity with the Victorian artist and tourist.
This picture, executed en plein air, was one of several painted on the shores of Derwentwater, Ullswater and Windermere. Leader must have been particularly pleased with it for he returned to paint the composition again in 1874, though as Ruth Wood points out this, later version lacks the freshness and spontaneity of the present, earlier work.
None of Leader's Cumbrian pictures from this period were exhibited at the Royal Academy, but were rather sold to collectors in Liverpool and Birmingham.
We are grateful to Ruth Wood for her help in preparing this catalogue entry.
This picture, executed en plein air, was one of several painted on the shores of Derwentwater, Ullswater and Windermere. Leader must have been particularly pleased with it for he returned to paint the composition again in 1874, though as Ruth Wood points out this, later version lacks the freshness and spontaneity of the present, earlier work.
None of Leader's Cumbrian pictures from this period were exhibited at the Royal Academy, but were rather sold to collectors in Liverpool and Birmingham.
We are grateful to Ruth Wood for her help in preparing this catalogue entry.