Dorking | Box Hill | England | North Downs | Surrey | United Kingdom
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1998-02-08 - 1998-04-26)Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (The Grand Rapids Art Museum, 1999-10-22 - 2000-01-02)Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Ferrara Galleries of Modern & Contemporary Art, 2001-02-25 - 2001-05-20)Gentle, Rural and Sublime - English Landscape Paintings and Watercolors, 1750-1850 (Denver Art Museum, 1993-12-11 - 1994-02-06)
Publications:
Canaletto to Constable : paintings of town and country from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn., 1998, pp. 4, 31, pl. 3, ND1354.4 Y25 1998 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 138-139, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)Elizabeth Einberg, The age of Hogarth, British painters born 1675-1709 , vol. 2, Tate Gallery, London, 1988, pp. 156-57, 159, fig. 43, ND466 T38 1988 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)Penelope McElwee, The non-representation of the agricultural labourers in 18th and 19th century English paintings : an exploration into the artistic conventions followed by the aristocracy and landowning classes in representations of the agricultural labourers ..., Newcastle upon Tyne, 2016, pp. 31-32, fig. 2-2, NX650.L32 M34 2016 (YCBA)Skira editore, Hogarth Reynolds Turner : British painting and the rise of modernity, Rome, 2014, pp.71-72, fig. 1, ND466 .H65 2014 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
George Lambert, a member of the artistic circle of William Hogarth and Francis Hayman, was the first British-born painter to devote himself entirely to landscape painting. This view of Box Hill, part of the range of the North Downs in southeastern England, was, together with a companion painting of Box Hill from a different viewpoint (Tate, London), formerly in the collection of the dukes of Bedford at Woburn Abbey. These works may have been commissioned by the fourth duke, who owned property in the area. They are, however, among the earliest representations of actual British scenery that was not part of a hunting scene or a country house portrait. Here a group of gentlemen enjoy a picnic on the hillside while taking in the sweeping views. Among them sits an artist, perhaps Lambert himself, who stops to sketch the scenery. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016