Ploughing

Artist Sir George Clausen (London, England, 1852 - 1944)

Date1889

Mediumoil on canvas

ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings

DimensionsHeight: 122.5 cm, Width: 183 cm
Frame Size: 170.8 x 232.5 x 18cm

AcquisitionPurchased in 1913 with income from the Macdonald Bequest.

CopyrightOut of copyright - CC0

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDAG002347

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About MeAs a young man George Clausen travelled in the Netherlands and came under the influence of the Hague School artists. They painted landscape and peasant life, as did Jules Bastien-Lepage, whose work Clausen had seen at the Grosvenor Gallery exhibition of 1880. Under the influence of Bastien-Lepage and his particular style of realism, Clausen moved to the Herefordshire countryside and began to paint farm labourers, often as here, depicted on a monumental scale.

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Clausen travelled extensively in the Netherlands, where paintings of rural and peasant life inspired him, though his scenes are often on more monumental scale