LOUIS BOSWORTH HURT (BRITISH 1856 - 1929),
HIGHLAND CATTLE IN A SCOTTISH LANDSCAPE
oil on canvas, signed
50cm x 76cm
Framed
Note: Born in 1856 in Ashbourne, Kent, Louis Bosworth Hurt is best known for his evocative landscape paintings. Hurt lived in Derbyshire with his wife Harriet, where he painted the local moors and his own herd of highland cattle. Part of his early training was as the pupil of George Turner, who was dubbed 'Derbyshire's John Constable'. Most of Hurt's work was carried out at his home in Ivonbrook, and he also owned a cottage in North Wales, where he would paint autumn scenes of Snowdonia and the surrounding landscape, however, his foremost inspiration lay in the wilderness of the Scottish Highlands. Hurt continued in the tradition of Victorian landscape painting whose most famous proponents were artists such as Horatio McCulloch, Edwin Landseer and John Constable. A prolific painter, he exhibited thirteen paintings at the Royal Academy, starting in the 1880s, as well as at the Royal Society of British Artists. His paintings were highly sought after by collectors for their poetic sense of nostalgia during a period when the effects of rapid industrialisation caused a widespread sense of longing for a rapidly disappearing way of life.

Condition Report
Very good overall condition. No visible signs of damage.