Newcastle at Night from the Rabbit Banks, Gateshead George Price Boyce British 1864 In this evocative watercolor Boyce offers a moody evening view of an industrial town in Northeast England. We look across the river Tyne at Gateshead, with the tower of the cathedral of St. Nicholas barely visible at the left of center and ruddy points of light created by flames issuing from factory chimneys. The steeply sloping Rabbit Banks in the foreground are today built over as part of Pipewellgate in Bensham. Boyce attracted the attention of John Ruskin who encouraged him to travel to Italy in 1854. He de
Newcastle at Night from the Rabbit Banks, Gateshead George Price Boyce British 1864 In this evocative watercolor Boyce offers a moody evening view of an industrial town in Northeast England. We look across the river Tyne at Gateshead, with the tower of the cathedral of St. Nicholas barely visible at the left of center and ruddy points of light created by flames issuing from factory chimneys. The steeply sloping Rabbit Banks in the foreground are today built over as part of Pipewellgate in Bensham. Boyce attracted the attention of John Ruskin who encouraged him to travel to Italy in 1854. He developed a distinct mode of watercolor painting and was elected to London's Old Watercolour Society in 1865, showing a variation of "Newcastle from the Rabbit Banks" that year with a sleeping male figure added in the foreground. A reviewer in the "Athenaeum" noted, "Among the recently elected members of this Society, by far the most original artist in landscape is Mr. Boyce, who treats with such perfect solemnity, beauty, richness and truth of colouring, some of the most commonplace distant view of a manufacturing town interests us in its million lives and fortunes; its subtle colouring seems pathetic, and a glowing sky looks full of prophecy." View more. Newcastle at Night from the Rabbit Banks, Gateshead. George Price Boyce (British, London 1826–1897 London). 1864. Watercolor heightened with gouache (bodycolor) and reductive techniques. Drawings
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