Huge 19th Century Oil Painting Wales Snowdon Mountain Range By Charles Leslie

1 Fine Art Huge Victorian 19th Century Work of Art Oil Painting Wales Snowdon Range By Charles Leslie 1839-1886.

Make a big statement to impress your clients & guests with this antique painting for you office or home wall space, a great family heirloom to pass down through the generations.

Subject Welsh landscape view of the beautiful Snowden mountain range with lakeland.

Oil on canvas.

Title "A Summer Shower Passing Over The Snowdon Range".

Having such incredible deep perspective, which is so breathtaking your focus is first drawn to the arched rainbow that is overhead reaching to the clouds above, with the beautiful mountain range in the background with hills either side, in the foreground beautiful view of the lakeland area with bird sflying overhead. To the right you can see 2 figures standing on the grassland a father and son by the shoreline who are fishing, the father is wearing a hat & holding the fishing rod, with trees behind and large stone boulders behind them.

Impressive huge size with the frame being 140cm wide and 89.5cm high.

Signed by the known British listed artist Charles Leslie bottom left in red and dated 1878 also having the artist brass name plaque at the base showing title.

This is on of his very fine works.

Charles Leslie (1839–1886) was an English landscape painter during the Victorian era, he was also a member of the Williams family of painters. Charles Leslie was born Charles Edward John Leslie on 27 November 1839 in the Pentonville Road area of the Islington borough of London. He was the son of Emily Ann Williams and Charles Leslie, senior. His grandfather Edward Williams (1781–1855) was a known landscape painter, also the father of six sons, who where all artists, they are collectively referred to as the Williams family of painters. The younger Charles loved to paint & was taught by his uncles, especially George Augustus Williams, whom he lived with in 1856 and 1857 at 32 Castelnau Villas in Barnes at a time when Leslie was already exhibiting showing his works at the Royal Academy.

Charles Leslie should not be confused with another painter Charles Robert Leslie, RA, who was the father of George Dunlop Leslie, RA. Charles Leslie was one of the first Victorian landscape artists to show scenes of Scottish & Welsh moorlands, and he became the better known painters of landscape themes. Charles Leslie landscapes often show stark mountains in the background towering over still waters with open skies above.

Leslie exhibited at the Royal Academy, the British Institution, the Suffolk Street Gallery of the Society of British Artists, & exhibited in other known Victorian art venues also. He died of liver disease at the age of 46 on 9 September 1886 at Mitcham Road Tooting near Wandsworth, Surrey. British museums have examples of his work like the National Library of Wales, the Royal Holloway Museum at the University of London and the Victoria Museum and Gallery in Liverpool. One of his landscapes is also on view at the Museum Geelvinck Hinlopen Huis in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

Sources Graves, Algernon (1884). Dictionary of artists who have exhibited works in the principal London exhibitions from 1760–1893. George Bell & Sons, London. 265 p. Graves, Algernon (1905). Royal Academy of Arts: a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769–1904. London: George Bell & Sons. 8 vol. C.Wood, Dictionary of British Art, Vol IV, Victorian Painters, E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessineurs et Graveurs. Paintings by Charles Leslie in British Museums UK.

Snowdon (/ˈsnoʊdən/; Welsh: Yr Wyddfa, pronounced [ər ˈʊɨ̯ðva]) is the highest mountain in Wales, at an elevation of 1,085 metres (3,560 ft) above sea level, and the highest point in the British Isles outside the Scottish Highlands. It is located in Snowdonia National Park.

In this beautiful Lakeland landscape scene, we can clearly see Leslie’s technical mastery of the outdoor world, come to life with his use of delicate brushwork and a muted colour palette.

Provenance from a fine art auction label verso.

Circa late 19th century dated 1878.

Such a delightful scene to the eye a great conversation piece.

Highly sought after due to the collectible nature of subject matter such elaborate detail.

With hanging thread on the back ready for immediate home wall display.

Incredible conversation piece for your guests.

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Condition report.

Offered in fine used condition.

Front painting surface in good overall order. Some paint loss in places & scuffs craquelure also foxing the canvas has been relined on the back. Set in fine impressive huge gilt frame which has general wear, various repairs and losses, cracking, scratches to the frame in places commensurate with usage &old age.

Dimensions in centimetres of the frame

High (89.5cm)
Wide (140cm)
Depth thickness of frame (6cm)


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