19th Century Scottish Oil Painting Fisherman Poachers Circle Horatio McCulloch

• Are you looking for an authentic, hand-crafted oil painting to display in your home or place of business? Look no further than this stunning 19th century Scottish painting artist in the circle of Horatio McCulloch. Every brushstroke tells a story, bringing you back to the days of Scottish fisher poachers in the 1800s. Invite history into your life with this exquisite work of art!

• Title Poachers At Dusk.

• This has a great sense of atmosphere and mystery with the use of the dark and light colors, set in the Scottish Highland landscape near the edge of a Lock. Your focus is drawn to the 2 mystery figures men in the background, the one on the left is holding a net and the other to his right is carrying a fishing rod. They are poachers. 
• Indistinctly signed by a Scottish artist Circle of Horatio McCulloch.
• Provenance from a fine art Scottish auction label, lot number verso.
• Oil on canvas laid on board.
• Circa 19th century.
• Set in gilt frame.
• Horatio McCulloch RSA (November 1805 in Glasgow, Scotland – 24 June 1867 in Edinburgh, Scotland), sometimes written McCulloch or M'Cull och, was a Scottish landscape painter. He was born in Glasgow in November 1805 the son of Alexander McCulloch, a cotton merchant, and his wife, Margaret Watson.
• Horatio McCulloch was trained in the studio of the Glasgow landscape painter John Knox (1778–1845) for about one year alongside Daniel Macnee (1806–1882) and at first earned his living as a decorative painter. He was then engaged at Hummock, painting the ornamental lids of snuffboxes, and afterward employed in Edinburgh by William Home Lizard, the engraver, to color the illustrations in Pride aux John Shelby's British Birds and similar works.
• After he moved to Edinburgh in 1825, he began painting in the tradition of Alexander Naismith. Working unwearied from nature, he was greatly influenced in his early practice by the watercolors of H. V. Williams. He returned to Glasgow in 1827, and was employed on several large pictures for the decoration of a public hall in St. George's Place, and he did a little as a theatrical scene-painter. About this time by the writings of Sir Walter Scott and the expressive landscape works of John Thomson, friend of Scott's and minister at Eddington Kirk, Edinburgh. Gradually McCulloch asserted his individuality, and formed his own style on a close study of nature; his works form an interesting link between the old world of Scottish landscape and the new.
• Reference sources Christie's, national galleries, thefineartsociety.
• A superb collector's item. 
• With hanging thread on the back, ready for immediate home display. 
• Such an intriguing, pleasing scene to the eye. 
• Incredible conversation piece for your guests. 
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• Condition report. 
• Offered in fine used condition. 
• The painting surface is worn and has various fading, losses, craquelure, foxing also staining in places.
• The frame has some chip losses, general wear, scuffs, scratches commensurate with usage & old age.
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Dimensions in centimetres of the frame

High (21.75cm) 
Width (27.75cm) 
Length depth thickness of frame (3cm)