Spectacular vivid Scottish valley view at evening sunset 19C oil painting ^Sale

A very picturesque work imbued with the play of light from sunset. Below is a river flowing through an endless Scottish valley. Presumably sketch work of the artist (but we do not insist). Signed at verso and dated “Evening”. Painted on artistic paperboard. Paperboard made by listed Robert Renton Nelson (c.1816-1899) was in business in Edinburgh by 1840, trading as a stationer and bookseller initially, and then as a printseller, artists’ colourman and framemaker. NB: last image shows Christie’s sale record of similar size oil same valley view by HMC painted presumably earlier. Paimting on artistic board.

Size app.: 18,5 x 29 cm (roughly 7,3 x 11,4 in) and recent frame ca 27,5 x 37,5 cm (roughly 10,8 x 14,8 in). Please study good resolution images for overall cosmetic condition. In person actual painting may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Weight of app. 1 kg is going to measure some 2 kg volume weight packed for shipment.

Horatio McCulloch RSA (November 1805 in Glasgow, Scotland – 24 June 1867 in Edinburgh, Scotland), sometimes written MacCulloch or M'Culloch, was a Scottish landscape painter. He was born in Glasgow in November 1805. Horatio McCulloch was trained in the studio of the Glasgow landscape painter John Knox (1778–1845) for about one year alongside Daniel Macnee (1806–1882) and at first earned his living as a decorative painter. Gradually MacCulloch asserted his individuality, and formed his own style on a close study of nature; his works form an interesting link between the old world of Scottish landscape and the new. During his lifetime Horatio McCulloch became the best-known and most successful landscape painter in Scotland. His constant aim was to paint the silence of the Highland wilderness where the wild deer roam with the kind of poetic truthfulness he admired in Wordsworth. The accomplished watercolours and broadly painted oil sketches that he produced throughout his career attracted little notice at the time and have remained comparatively unknown. His early works include paintings of Cadzow Forest near Hamilton and grand views of the Clyde. He undertook regular summer sketching tours of the West Highlands, completing the sketches as paintings as back in his studio. These paintings celebrate the romantic scenery of the Scottish Highlands and evoke a magnificent sense of scale, emphasizing the dramatic grandeur. Horatio McCulloch had by his death in 1867 created the essential iconography of the Highlands.