A beautiful 19th century landscape painting of the Scottish mountain (Munro) by the renowned artists Frederick Lee & Thomas Sidney Cooper The painting is an oil on board, signed by both artists and dated 1854.Housed in a gilt frame. The image size is 47cm x 62cm, whilst overall the size is 69cm x 85 cmThe painting is in very good condition, having had a light clean. There is some slight crazing to the sky section as to be expected with age,( see photo close ups with flash) the frame is also in very good condition. There is a handwritten label verso which readsNote: According to Cooper, it was during a visit to Lee at his house in Devon that a mutual decision was made to ''...paint some pictures conjointly''. Lee was to paint the landscape first and Cooper to introduce the animals - and, at Lee''s insistence, to handle the financial arrangements. In the late 1840s both artists were at the height of their popularity and their exhibited collaborations in the Dutch tradition created a ''great sensation'' at the Royal Academy when they first appeared. Prince Albert commented that they had ''...caused a new want among patrons'' and pronounced them ''the Beaumont and Fletcher of Art''. But by the mid-1850s, however, the art critics were tiring of their annual productions. To what extent the adverse criticism resulted from a gradual resentment from their fellow artists is uncertain. Lee''s somewhat cavalier attitude to his profession, which he considered ''...more as a pastime than as a business'', together with the surprising rapidity with which both artists could produce large highly finished compositions of undoubted quality, combined with the long list of patrons eager to purchase the results, naturally rankled with artists of lesser talent. Lee and Cooper''s nine consecutive years of exhibiting their collaborations at the Royal Academy and elsewhere ended in 1856. However, the fifteen Academy exhibits represent less than a quarter of their total...