About this objectThis atmospheric evening landscape study was painted during one of the artist’s frequent holidays from London to the Cotswolds. Broad brushstrokes capture the gently rolling hills in this modern composition.
The artist’s friend and painting companion, Charles M. Gere (1869-1957) recalled how he found Steer a ‘small stone house’ near ‘the upper slopes of Painswick Beacon, which is where he wished to paint. He liked the hill with its quarries and pine woods and the distant prospect over the Severn Vale to the Malverns, Dean Forest and the Welsh Hills, and he worked there very happily…’
MakerSteer, Philip Wilson
Maker Rolepainter
Date Made1915
Period20th century
Medium and Materialsmedium: oil
support: canvas
Style and IconographyImpressionist
Style and IconographyEnglish landscape
Style and IconographyLandscape
Techniqueoil on canvas
Measurementssupport height 59.6 cm
support width 90.1 cm
Subject and Association KeywordsPainswick, Gloucestershire
Credit LinePurchased from the artist's studio sale with the aid of the NACF and the Dr Stansfield Bequest, 1942
