Darnley Fine Art has dated this Raymond Booth Landscape Painting to the Victorian era.
Image size: 31 x 48 inches (79 x 122 cm)
June 1987 Exhibition label on verso
Original frame
Provenance
The Artist’s Estate
Exhibited
62
Booth was above all a great recorder of the natural world who could translate his observations of the Yorkshire countryside, its fauna and flora, into compositions of a beauty and intensity rivalling the greatest of his Victorian predecessors.
This intense, yet intimate, landscape depicts a section of woods around Booth’s home in Alwoodley, Leeds, where he spent much of his time. Here Booth has worked slowly to develop the densely worked, close-up, landscape in which the woodland and meadows have acquired a poetic quality through his sensitivity to season, weather and time of day.
Raymond Charles
Booth Intensely private, and possessing an obsessive work ethic and passion for the natural world, Raymond Booth earned a reputation as one of the greatest botanical painters and illustrators, despite rarely leaving his Yorkshire home. Eschewing the more fashionable modernist principles of the early mid-twentieth century, he instead produced beautiful, intense compositions in oil of British flora and fauna, that rival the very finest Victorian followers of the genre.
His work is held in numerous public collections, including the Shirley Sherwood Gallery at Kew; The Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge) and Leeds Art Gallery; The Ulster Museum (Belfast) and the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation (Pittsburgh, PA).
Darnley Fine Art has dated this Raymond Booth Landscape Painting to the Victorian era.
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Raymond Booth Afternoon Sun in Late May
