About this artwork

In the 1890s Crawhall moved in with his wealthy parents in Yorkshire and in addition to painting spent much of his time hunting and breeding horses. This watercolour is painted on linen, which Crawhall would have attached onto a wooden frame or stretcher. Painting with watercolour on a sized fabric was difficult and required tremendous technical skill. Crawhall needed to mix up sufficiently large quantities of paint due to the absorbency of the material and it was often difficult to determine exactly what the final tone would be when the paint dried. The addition of Chinese white to pigments produced opaque washes, and tended to make the final colour colder than when the paint was first applied.

Updated before 2020

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Joseph Crawhall

Joseph Crawhall