1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Chiswick House, from the Lake is a 1940 watercolor by Archibald Standish Hartrick, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a quiet scene of a pale stone building behind bare trees. The branches are dark against a light sky, and a fence runs along the bottom edge. In the foreground, a small pond reflects the trees and a single white bird floats on the water. The artist used loose, sketchy strokes—some areas are barely there, like the sky, while others, like the trees, are more defined. The colors are mostly muted, with just a few bright spots of yellow and green. Next, look up Archibald Standish Hartrick to see more of his work.
Archibald Standish Hartrick’s watercolour of Chiswick House from the lake was created in 1940 as part of the Recording Britain project, a wartime initiative funded by the Pilgrim Trust to document the British landscape amid concerns over bomb damage, invasion, and rapid modernization. The scheme, directed by Sir Kenneth Clark, employed artists to record scenes such as country estates, rural landscapes, and historic buildings, aiming to preserve a sense of national identity and support traditional art forms during wartime. This work is one of over 1,500 produced by 97 artists, including…
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Archibald Standish Hartrick (7 August 1864 – 1 February 1950) was a Scottish painter known for the quality of his lithographic work.
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