A Cottage in Patterdale, Westmoreland

A Cottage in Patterdale, Westmoreland
A Cottage in Patterdale, Westmoreland
Artist	Philip James de Loutherbourg
Year	1783
Type	Oil on canvas, landscape painting
Dimensions	39.5 cm × 57.5 cm (15.6 in × 22.6 in)
Location	Government Art Collection

Year1783

Dimensions39.5 cm × 57.5 cm (15.6 in × 22.6 in)

A Cottage in Patterdale, Westmoreland is a 1783 landscape painting by the French artist Philip James de Loutherbourg.^[1]^[2] It depicts a cottage at Patterdale in the Lake District.^[3] Known as a pioneer of Romanticism, Loutherbourg moved and settled in Britain where he was elected a member of the Royal Academy.

The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1784 at Somerset House in London along with a companion piece Skiddaw in Cumberland. Today it is part of the Government Art Collection, having been acquired in 1954.^[4]

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Paintings	Landscape with Figures and Animals (1763) Landscape with Animals (1767) Moonlight (1777) Warley Camp (1780) A Cottage in Patterdale, Westmoreland (1783) Dovedale in Derbyshire (1784) A View near Matlock, Derbyshire (1785) Snowdon from Capel Curig (1787) The Falls of the Rhine at Schaffhausen (1788) Visitor to a Moonlit Churchyard (1790) The Destruction of Pharaoh's Army (1792) The Shipwreck (1793) The Grand Attack on Valenciennes (1794) Lord Howe's Action, or the Glorious First of June (1795) Defeat of the Spanish Armada (1796) The Great Fire of London (1797) The Battle of Camperdown (1799) A Distant Hail-Storm Coming On (1799) The Battle of the Nile (1800) A Fishing Boat Brought Ashore near Conway Castle (1800) Coalbrookdale by Night (1801) The Battle of Alexandria (1802) The Capture of the Chevrette (1802) The Landing of British Troops at Aboukir (1802) An Avalanche in the Alps (1803) Banditti in a Landscape (1804) The Evening Coach (1805) The River Wye at Tintern Abbey (1805)
Related	Eidophusikon Portrait of Philip James de Loutherbourg

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