Landscape Painting
1868
oil
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1868
oil
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Landscape Painting is a 1868 oil by George Dunlop Leslie, a British Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows two women in a garden. One sits on a bench, holding a book and wearing a wide-brimmed hat. The other stands nearby, leaning on a stone wall, dressed in a long, patterned gown. A small table beside them holds a teacup and a cloth. The background has soft greens and blues, with trees and a fence covered in roses. The light feels warm, as if it’s late afternoon. If you like this quiet scene, look up Realism next to see more paintings like this.
A landscape painting by George Dunlop Leslie from 1868 depicts two women in a garden, one seated and painting while the other stands nearby, surrounded by roses near a wall and tree branches. Signed "G.D. Leslie" and dated "1868," it was commissioned for a lunette-shaped recess in the National Competition Gallery, completed in 1864–65 as part of a decorative scheme for art student exhibitions. The gallery’s lunettes were removed before World War II and later conserved, with this work reinstalled in its original location in 2010. The project, overseen by Richard Redgrave and Henry Cole,…
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George Dunlop Leslie painted landscapes in oils straight on the canvas, like a scene you could step into.
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