1837
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Os Pisões is a 1837 watercolor by James Holland, a British Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a quiet street with a large, weathered building in the center. The building has a simple porch with steps leading up, and a few people are walking or standing around it. On the left, a horse-drawn carriage waits near a puddle on the dusty road, while trees and greenery fill the background. The artist used soft, loose brushstrokes to capture light and shadow, giving the scene a gentle, dreamy feel. The colors are muted, with earthy tones and hints of blue and green blending together. If you like this style, check out the Victoria and Albert Museum for more works like this.
A watercolour by James Holland depicts a flour mill in Portugal, rendered during his stay at a hotel run by the mother of Mrs. Reynolds. Holland fell ill while there, and the landlady’s young daughter, who reminded him of his own child, received the drawing as a keepsake. After the deaths of Mrs. Reynolds in 1911 and her husband in 1922, references to the hotel appear in the Rev. Wm. Robertson’s *Journal of a Clergyman* (1845) and in *The Connoisseur* (June 1925), where the work is reproduced.
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James Holland (18 October 1799 – 12 February 1870) was an English painter of flowers, landscapes, architecture, marine subjects, and a book illustrator.
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