# Scottish Landscape

- By: Robert S. Duncanson (born Fayette, NY 1821-died Detroit, MI 1872)
- Date: 1871
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 29 5/8 x 50 in. (75.4 x 127 cm)
- Culture: Scotland
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of James Bauld and Robert Tessier
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=7614)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/ca4910e193b3267481e781f7eadc13b6.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.