Robert Carver, British, c.1730-1791
Title: A Landscape with Peasants and a Dog
Date: 1754
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
128 x 160 cm
Signed: upper centre: R.C. 1754
Credit Line: Purchased, 1973
Object Number: NGI.4065
Exhibition HistoryAspects of Irish Art, a Loan Exhibition; Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio, 27 January - 3 March 1974; Toledo Museum of Arts, Toledo, Ohio, 17 March - 14 April 1974; St Louis Art Museum, St Louis, Missouri, 3 May - 9 June 1974
Label TextCarver received his initial artistic training from his father before enrolling at the Dublin Society Schools. He won great renown painting sets for the Dublin theatres, but also produced a significant number of easel paintings. His technical competence is evident in this ideal rustic scene, particularly in the deftly realised figures and carefully calculated balance of the composition. The order and tranquil quality of the painting recall the Arcadian landscapes of the seventeenth-century French artist Claude Lorrain.