This is Blacklock’s watercolour study for the tree shown on the far left in the previous painting ‘The Rookery’. Blacklock was a talented watercolourist and would have painted this ancient oak tree on the spot.
Study for the Tree in ‘The Rookery’, about 1854, watercolour by William James Blacklock (1816-1858).
An ancient oak tree with hollow trunk stands beside a drystone wall. This is a study for the tree on the far left of composition in The Rookery by William James Blacklock.
Blacklock is one of Cumbria’s most important landscape painters. He painted the scenery of Cumbria, the Lake District and the Borders and particularly favoured remote areas. He painted these landscapes in his own uniquely precise style.
There are these inscriptions on the exhibit:
Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery collection, bequest of Clara Houlgate, 1946
Image © Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery
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