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Scottish Landscape
Robert S. Duncanson (born Fayette, NY 1821-died Detroit, MI 1872)
1871
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- 29 5/8 x 50 in. (75.4 x 127 cm)
- Culture
- Scotland
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of James Bauld and Robert Tessier
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Robert S. Duncanson made several trips to Scotland, probably inspired by his father's Scottish heritage. He created romantic wilderness views that may have been influenced by the novels and poems of Sir Walter Scott. In this piece the warm colors and rich vegetation make a remote scene appear welcoming, and would have appealed to the sentimental tastes of his American patrons.
