🏞️ Victorian Oil Painting The Glen Sligachan, Skye by Louis Bosworth Hurt

🏞️ Victorian Oil Painting — The Glen Sligachan, Skye by Louis Bosworth Hurt | Signed Scottish Landscape

🖼 Subject & Medium:

• Title: The Glen Sligachan, Skye

• Medium: Oil on board, protected by front glass cover

• Subject: A breathtaking landscape of the iconic Glen Sligachan on the Isle of Skye, Scotland — a famed destination celebrated for its wild, dramatic scenery.

🖌 Composition & Technique:
The viewer’s eye is immediately drawn to the rushing waters of the River Sligachan, coursing over rocky boulders and flanked by lush green grasses. In the distance, the soft hills rise into the jagged, majestic Cuillin mountains under a shifting, overcast sky.

Hurt’s painting is rich with vivid hues, textured brushwork, and exquisite detail, perfectly capturing the untamed beauty of the Scottish Highlands. Earthy greens, soft browns, rocky greys, shimmering blues, and subtle ochres blend seamlessly to create depth, mood, and a sense of place.

His brushwork shifts from delicate precision on the distant mountains to bold, textured strokes in the foreground, creating movement and atmosphere. You can almost hear the rush of the river and feel the cool, damp air of the Highland landscape. The interplay of light and shadow across the painting enhances the dramatic, romantic feel — reflecting Scotland’s famous moody skies.

This piece is more than a landscape: it evokes a timeless, emotional connection to nature, blending realism with a touch of romanticism.

✒ Artist Signature:

• Signed by Louis Bosworth Hurt (1856–1929) in the bottom corner

👨🎨 About the Artist:
Louis Bosworth Hurt was a celebrated English landscape painter, born in Ashbourne, Derbyshire. A student of George Turner — sometimes called “Derbyshire’s John Constable” — Hurt became renowned for his Highland cattle scenes and Scottish landscapes.
He exhibited 13 times at the Royal Academy and is represented in major collections, including the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum and national galleries across South Africa, Reading, Manchester, Rotherham, and Sheffield. His works have achieved top auction results, including a record $155,806 at Christie’s London.

💎 Frame:

• Original, ornate Victorian gilt frame

• Title inscribed on the reverse: The Glen Sligachan, Skye

• Comes with fitted hanging thread — ready for display

📏 Framed Dimensions:

• Height: 29 cm

• Width: 37 cm

• Depth (thickness): 3.5 cm

📜 Provenance:

• Label verso: William Rodman & Co, Dealers in Works of Art, notable London auction house

• In the collection of Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD

💖 Why You’ll Love It:
✅ A highly collectible Victorian landscape by a respected British artist
✅ Features one of Scotland’s most iconic views — Glen Sligachan, Isle of Skye
✅ Beautiful details, rich colors, and captivating atmosphere
✅ Adds charm, character, and history to any space
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🔍 Condition Report:

• Painting surface: Good overall condition; some foxing, staining, and craquelure present

• Frame: Noticeable wear, scuffs, chips, cracks, discolouration, staining, and some paint touch-ups consistent with age — all enhancing its antique authenticity

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