A Cottage in Patterdale, Westmoreland is a 1783 landscape painting by the French artist Philip James de Loutherbourg.Andrews p.289Roe p.183 It depicts a cottage at Patterdale in the Lake District.Powell & Hebron p.63 Known as a pioneer of Romanticism, Loutherbourg moved and settled in Britain where he was elected a member of the Royal Academy.
The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1784 at Somerset House in London along with a companion piece Skiddaw in Cumberland. Today it is part of the Government Art Collection, having been acquired in 1954.https://artcollection.dcms.gov.uk/artwork/2525/
References
Bibliography Andrews, Malcolm. A Sweet View: The Making of an English Idyll. Reaktion Books, 2021. Preston, Lillian Elvira. Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg: Eighteenth Century Romantic Artist and Scene Designer. University of Florida, 1977. Powell, Cecilia & Hebron, Stephen. Savage Grandeur and Noblest Thoughts: Discovering the Lake District 1750-1820. Wordsworth Trust, 2010. Roe, Sonia. Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in the Government Art Collection. Public Catalogue Foundation, 2007.