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Description: | Oil on canvas. This view of Windsor Castle from across the River Thames may include a depiction of the artist himself; in the foreground a man in a white wig sits by the side of the road and sketches. With him are two gentlemen in three-cornered hats. One dressed in blue and on horseback, pointing up the river; another, wearing red is on foot.
This painting is considered to be the work of marine artist Samuel Scott. However, it is not clear whether Scott ever painted Windsor Castle. A short ‘Catalogue of the Works of Samuel Scott’, published in 1980, does not include any works relating to Windsor. But there is another view of the Castle, which was once attributed to Scott. A 1949 catalogue of the ‘Windsor Collection formed by the Lord Fairhaven [of] Anglesey Abbey’ describes a Scott painting of ‘Windsor Castle, home of Queen Anne’, which remains in the property today. It has been reattributed to ‘British (English) School’ and there are many differences between the two works but the Anglesey painting is similarly framed by trees and includes two figures in three cornered hats, one dressed in blue and the other in red. Perhaps both are by Scott, one of many British artists whose career has yet to be researched in depth. | Subjects: | genre walking stick horse road waistcoat stockings horseback flag topography tree 18th century costume woman landscape C18th fortification sheep castle barge/canal boat dog coat man river | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Samuel Scott | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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