Painting
Maker & role
Bessie Rouse (b.1843, d.1924), Artist
Production date
circa 1880
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Object detail
Title
Untitled (Highland landscape with glacial lake and mountains; Loch Leven?)
Production place
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Measurements
Frame, H: 47.9 x W: 71.7 x D: 2.2cm (H: 479 x W: 717 x D: 22mm); Picture, H: 27 x W: 50.5cm (H: 270 x W: 505mm)
Signature & marks
No applied bottom RH corner of frame (rear)
Credit line
Gift, NSW Department of Planning and Environment, 1987
Rouse Hill Estate Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Rouse Hill Estate Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Rouse Hill Estate Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Rouse Hill Estate Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Caption
Highland landscape with lake and mountains [Loch Leven?]. Bessie Rouse, c1880.
Description
One of many scenes of the Scottish Highlands in the Rouse Hill collection, this painted view is of a Highland landscape with a broad, glacier-carved loch in which stands small islets, one of which is topped by a blocky structure. A road winds to the right, over a stone bridge on which stands a woman in blue skirt, red shawl and white cap (a figure seen in several paintings at Rouse Hill) holding a basket and gazing out at the view. A thatch cottage is beyond. The mountains are painted in shades of soft greens, purples and browns. It seems to be a view of Loch Leven, Lochaber, taken from near Glencoe. If so, the building seen on the island would be St Mund’s chapel, on Eilean Munde. Another, near-identical version of this painting complete with the figure on the bridge is known from an international auction website, indicating both were copied from a published view.
The work is attributed to Bessie Rouse [1843 - 1924], and the colouring, figural details and brush technique are comparable to other works by her. Bessie Rouse was a keen amateur painter, whose surviving works are dominated by views that evoke the Celtic ancestry of the Buchanan family.
Located in the drawing room at Rouse Hill, this painting was donated to the collection by Mrs Bobby Paton, daughter of Marjorie (Peggy) Terry and step-daughter of Gerald Terry.
The work is attributed to Bessie Rouse [1843 - 1924], and the colouring, figural details and brush technique are comparable to other works by her. Bessie Rouse was a keen amateur painter, whose surviving works are dominated by views that evoke the Celtic ancestry of the Buchanan family.
Located in the drawing room at Rouse Hill, this painting was donated to the collection by Mrs Bobby Paton, daughter of Marjorie (Peggy) Terry and step-daughter of Gerald Terry.
Accession number
R88/25
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