August Becker (1822-87)
A View in Glen Derry (?) Signed and dated 1864
Oil on canvas, mounted on millboard | 33.7 x 46.3 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 400881
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Queen Victoria and her family explored their Balmoral estate in Scotland with great enthusiasm. She noted in her journal in 1854 that she had ridden ‘at least four miles up Glen Derry, which is very fine, with the remnants of a splendid forest ... and the Derry Water running below’. In March 1877 the Queen had been shown ‘some charming paintings done at Balmoral & Osborne by August Becker most of which I mean to buy’, according to the entry in her Journal, and this was one of them. Inscribed by the artist: Balmoral. 1864.
Provenance
Acquired by Queen Victoria; first recorded at Windsor Castle in 1879 (dated Inventory Stamp on reverse)
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Creator(s)
Acquirer(s)
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Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas, mounted on millboard
Measurements
33.7 x 46.3 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
43.1 x 55.8 x 4.4 cm (frame, external)
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Alternative title(s)
The valley of the Dee, Balmoral, previously entitled.
Valley of the Dee(?), previously entitled.
