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Description: | Views of country houses have been popular subjects in English landscape painting from the 17th century onwards. Landowners frequently commissioned views of their country seats to hang on the walls either of their country houses, or of their town houses in the West End of London. Many of the country house views by the Northumbrian artist J.W. Carmichael were of houses that had been built or altered by his friend, the great local architect John Dobson. His painting relies on a tried and trusted formula: a view of a country house with a screen of trees to the left and right. Holme Eden in Cumbria was built in the early 19th century, but in the 16th century Tudor style. The painting illustrates the re-introduction from around 1800 of formal gardens next to the house. Estate staff can be seen talking in groups: note the wicker baskets or hampers, the watering can, the garden roller, and the bridge and garden bench in wooden tracery. | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Temporal: | Production date: 1843 | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Creator: | John Wilson Carmichael | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/artonline/se... | Go to resource |
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