Alfred William Hunt (1830-1896)
Climbing Shadows
The Verity Waterlow Bequest
In his early work, Waterlow placed great importance in the need for landscape painters to work en plein air.
These oil sketches prompted Edgcumbe Standley in the Art Journal of 1903 (pp.52-6) to note that Waterlow "has rendered these studies of even greater value than his finished pictures. They reveal the anatomy of the painter's brain and hand."
Waterlow painted this work at the age of eighteen or nineteen.
