Painting
Maker & role
Bessie Rouse (b.1843, d.1924), Artist
Production date
Late 19th Century
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Object detail
Title
Untitled (Conwy Castle, Wales)
Collection
Measurements
Frame, H: 60 x W: 45cm (H: 600 x W: 450mm); Image, H: 46 x W: 32cm (H: 460 x W: 320mm)
Signature & marks
Reg. No. applied RHS lower corner, reverse side
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
Gilt framed watercolour of Conway Castle, Wales. Bessie Rouse (1843-1924).
Description
A framed watercolour of a coastal view, along a beach towards a seaside castle; It is low tide, and there are fishing boats both moored and drawn up on the sand, and 2 men inspect their catch in a sack in the left foreground. Unsigned but attributed to Bessie Rouse, this scene is of Conwy Castle, on the north-west coast of Wales. Conwy is one of the many castles built by the English King Edward I to pacify the Welsh princes in the late 13th century, and one of the best preserved.
Bessie Rouse [nee Buchanan] was a keen amateur painter, whose many surviving works at Rouse Hill are dominated by Scottish and Welsh views that evoke the Celtic ancestry of the Buchanan family. Other prominent views are of the Hawkesbury and looking east from Rouse Hill along the Windsor Road. In the 1870s she created a studio in an enclosed space between the main house and service wing that was as much a genteel sitting room as practical painting space. Paintings such as these were rarely painted from life but adapted from published views.
The sinuous composition, drooping triangular sails, and posture of the fisherman in foreground, are seen in several of her signed paintings.
Located in Rouse Hill's upper hall, this painting is part of the collection acquired from Mr Gerald Terry (1904-1999), the house’s last permanent resident.
Bessie Rouse [nee Buchanan] was a keen amateur painter, whose many surviving works at Rouse Hill are dominated by Scottish and Welsh views that evoke the Celtic ancestry of the Buchanan family. Other prominent views are of the Hawkesbury and looking east from Rouse Hill along the Windsor Road. In the 1870s she created a studio in an enclosed space between the main house and service wing that was as much a genteel sitting room as practical painting space. Paintings such as these were rarely painted from life but adapted from published views.
The sinuous composition, drooping triangular sails, and posture of the fisherman in foreground, are seen in several of her signed paintings.
Located in Rouse Hill's upper hall, this painting is part of the collection acquired from Mr Gerald Terry (1904-1999), the house’s last permanent resident.
Accession number
R90/22
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