George Paul Chalmers
The Eagle's Nest, Skye
About this artwork
Although Chalmers was primarily a figurative painter, he also produced a number of landscapes. Unlike the work of his friend McTaggart who adopted an increasingly brilliant and light keyed palette, Chalmers' landscapes are generally muted in colour and low in key, recalling the tonality of the French Barbizon and Dutch Hague School painters, whose work was becoming popular in Scotland.
Updated before 2020
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artist:George Paul Chalmers (1833 - 1878) Scottish
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title:The Eagle's Nest, Skye
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date created:Unknown
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:64.80 x 95.30 cm; Framed: 104.20 x 134.00 x 12.00 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased 1924
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accession number:NG 1629
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George Paul Chalmers
George Paul Chalmers
Chalmers began sketching at a young age, and by 1851 he was painting oil portraits of locals in his native Montrose. This eventually earned him enough money to move to Edinburgh, where at the age of twenty he became a student of the Trustees' Academy under Robert Scott Lauder. Despite this...