1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
"The Haunted Manor," Clapton-in-Gordano is a 1940 watercolor by Archibald Standish Hartrick, a British Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolour painting shows a small, old manor house surrounded by trees and bushes. The house is white with a dark roof and has a small window on the left side. The trees and bushes are painted in shades of green and brown. The painting has a soft, dreamy quality to it, with the colours blending together to create a sense of atmosphere. The artist has used loose brushstrokes to capture the texture of the trees and the roughness of the stone walls. The painting is held at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A watercolour by Archibald Standish Hartrick from 1940 depicts an overgrown, seemingly abandoned thatched house as part of the Recording Britain collection, a wartime initiative to document the British landscape and changing national identity. The work was produced under a scheme launched by the Committee for the Employment of Artists in Wartime, funded by the Pilgrim Trust and directed by Sir Kenneth Clark, to record places and scenes across England, Wales, and Scotland during the Second World War. The collection aimed to capture a sense of national heritage amid concerns over bomb damage,…
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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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