Skating in the Lake District

Details

Julius Caesar Ibbetson (Leeds 1759-1817 Masham, N. Yorkshire)
Skating in the Lake District
signed and dated 'J Ibbetson 1802' (lower right)
oil on canvas
9 x 12 in. (23 x 30.5)

Exhibited

Cheltenham, Cheltenham Art Gallery, Twenty-first Cheltenham Festival, Fine Paintings from Gloucestershire Houses and other sources, 5-17 July 1965, no.23.
Cape Town, South African National Gallery, Old Masters from a Private Collection, no.4/188.

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Lot Essay

Ibbetson worked in Westmoreland in the Lake District from 1799 to 1804 painting numerous views of the lakes, and is known to have sketched skating scenes similar to the present composition. By the end of the eighteenth century, the dramatic landscape of the Lake District was the subject of particular artistic and literary admiration.

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