Alfred William Hunt (1830-1896)
Climbing Shadows
Keeley Halswelle (1832-1891)
Skye
Oil on canvas; initialled, titled and dated 1885, labelled
13 ½ x 23 ½ inches
£3,200
Provenance
Wyndham Halswelle, the artist's son
Halswelle was a skilled but initially rather conventional figure painter, especially of Italian subjects, but in the 1880s he started to paint landscapes of Scotland and the Thames Valley in a looser, marvellously dramatic manner. He lived on a houseboat, painting hundreds of plein air sketches, many of which have ended up in the V&A and the National Gallery.
