View of the Pic du Midi d'Ossau in the Pyrenees is an 1854 landscape painting by the British artist Clarkson Stanfield.Chappel p.24 It depicts a view of the Pic du Midi d'Ossau in the Pyrenees. In the foreground are a group of brigands who are completely dominated by the scale of the mountain behind them.Van der Merwe & Took p.165
Stanfield, who had first made his name as a scenic designer at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, was one of the leading British romantic painters, known for his seascapes in particular. A friend of Turner and Charles Dickens, he was by this point a veteran British artist. He displayed the picture at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1854 at the National Gallery in London.Van der Merwe & Took p.165 Acquired by the art collector Thomas Holloway for 2,550 guineas in 1881, the painting now belongs to Royal Holloway and hangs in its campus in Surrey.https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/view-of-the-pic-du-midi-dossau-in-the-pyrenees-with-brigands-12618
References
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