Object Record
Images
Metadata
Collection |
British Watercolors |
Catalog Number |
2000.026.012 |
Title |
Great Oak in Cowdray Park with Deer |
Artist |
Brett, John |
Object Name |
painting |
Date |
1854 |
Description |
Great Oak in Cowdray Park with Deer Original watercolor of a huge oak tree in Cowdry Park, surrounded by deer. |
Provenance |
Purchased as part of the British watercolors collection 1966 / 67, in memoyof Gloria Dougherty, Dorothy Logan, and Lilian Ross. John Brett enrolled in the Royal Academy Schools in 1854, at the relatively late age of twenty-two. A devout reader of the writings of John Ruskin, he was attracted by the work of the Pre-Raphaelites* and met Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt. In 1856, while traveling in the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland, he met the landscape painter John William Inchbold, whose work proved to be a significant inspiration. Soon afterwards Brett completed his first major painting, The Glacier of Rosenlaui, dated August 1856 and shown at the Royal Academy of Art*, London the following year; the painting is today in the collection of Tate Britain. |
Medium |
watercolor on paper |
Dimensions |
H-18.5 W-12 inches |
Catalog date |
2000-02-13 |