Sam Bough RSA RSW watercolour on handmade paper 'Steamboats at Sea.'
Sam Bough RSA RSW (1822 - 1878) watercolour on handmade paper 'Steamboats at Sea,' signed below right, mounted, framed and behind glass
Dimensions: 24.5 cm x 17cm, with frame: 39cm x 32
Provenance
With Gray & Sons, Carlisle
Sam Bough
Although not a native Scot, (he was born in Carlisle) Sam Bough is one of the most influential figures in the development of nineteenth-century Scottish landscape painting. He was a largely self-taught artist: the early part of his career was spent painting theatrical sets in Manchester and Glasgow.
From a young age he travelled the British Isles and painted woodland, moorland, rivers and coastlines and always populated with the people that worked the land he had chosen as his subject. Slowly he extricated himself from theatre work and he and his wife, Bella, settled in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire at the edge of Cadzow Forest.
Bough dedicated himself to landscape painting and became adept at illustrating the fleeting effects of weather. He looked for weather that lent drama to a scene and to this end he would ask for forecasts from an Edinburgh fishmonger before moving quickly to the coast to record it.
Bough settled in Edinburgh in 1855 and over the following two decades the coastlines of Fife and East Lothian and their picturesque fishing harbours provided him endless subject matter. He painted them being beaten by turbulent seas and in the calm of low tide lit with astonishing sunrises and sunsets.
Sam Bough RSA RSW (1822 - 1878) watercolour on handmade paper 'Steamboats at Sea,' signed below right, mounted, framed and behind glass
Dimensions: 24.5 cm x 17cm, with frame: 39cm x 32
Provenance
With Gray & Sons, Carlisle
Sam Bough
Although not a native Scot, (he was born in Carlisle) Sam Bough is one of the most influential figures in the development of nineteenth-century Scottish landscape painting. He was a largely self-taught artist: the early part of his career was spent painting theatrical sets in Manchester and Glasgow.
From a young age he travelled the British Isles and painted woodland, moorland, rivers and coastlines and always populated with the people that worked the land he had chosen as his subject. Slowly he extricated himself from theatre work and he and his wife, Bella, settled in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire at the edge of Cadzow Forest.
Bough dedicated himself to landscape painting and became adept at illustrating the fleeting effects of weather. He looked for weather that lent drama to a scene and to this end he would ask for forecasts from an Edinburgh fishmonger before moving quickly to the coast to record it.
Bough settled in Edinburgh in 1855 and over the following two decades the coastlines of Fife and East Lothian and their picturesque fishing harbours provided him endless subject matter. He painted them being beaten by turbulent seas and in the calm of low tide lit with astonishing sunrises and sunsets.
Sam Bough RSA RSW (1822 - 1878) watercolour on handmade paper 'Steamboats at Sea,' signed below right, mounted, framed and behind glass
Dimensions: 24.5 cm x 17cm, with frame: 39cm x 32
Provenance
With Gray & Sons, Carlisle
Sam Bough
Although not a native Scot, (he was born in Carlisle) Sam Bough is one of the most influential figures in the development of nineteenth-century Scottish landscape painting. He was a largely self-taught artist: the early part of his career was spent painting theatrical sets in Manchester and Glasgow.
From a young age he travelled the British Isles and painted woodland, moorland, rivers and coastlines and always populated with the people that worked the land he had chosen as his subject. Slowly he extricated himself from theatre work and he and his wife, Bella, settled in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire at the edge of Cadzow Forest.
Bough dedicated himself to landscape painting and became adept at illustrating the fleeting effects of weather. He looked for weather that lent drama to a scene and to this end he would ask for forecasts from an Edinburgh fishmonger before moving quickly to the coast to record it.
Bough settled in Edinburgh in 1855 and over the following two decades the coastlines of Fife and East Lothian and their picturesque fishing harbours provided him endless subject matter. He painted them being beaten by turbulent seas and in the calm of low tide lit with astonishing sunrises and sunsets.