19Th Century Oil Landscape Borrowdale Lake District Glaramara Fell

Lake District Oil Landscape Signed Stephen Enoch Hogley (1842-1927) Borrowdale, Cumberland, circa 1880

*Signed Victorian Lake District Oil Painting with Cattle and Figure*

*Atmospheric Landscape in Golden Ochres, Deep Greens and Blue-Grey Mountain Tones*

Highlights

• Original Victorian oil on canvas
• Signed with the artist's initials
• Borrowdale, Cumberland, Lake District
• Circa 1880
• Beautiful golden afternoon illumination
• Farmer and cattle within a layered pastoral landscape
• Golden ochre, olive, forest green, russet and blue-grey palette
• Expressive changes in brushwork across the composition
• Possible view towards Glaramara
• G. Rowney & Co., London canvas stamp verso
• Original ornate Victorian gilt frame
• Excellent decorative scale for residential and professional interiors
• Private collection and auction provenance
• Private museum exhibition history

Introduction

A richly atmospheric Victorian landscape by **Stephen Enoch Hogley (1842-1927)** depicting Borrowdale in the English Lake District.

The painting has considerable decorative presence, combining a warm, sophisticated landscape palette with an ornate period gilt frame.

Golden ochres and russet browns run through the foreground alongside olive and deeper forest greens. These warm earth colours transition towards blue-grey and muted violet across the distant mountains, while creams and pale blues animate the cloud-filled sky.

The result is a landscape that works particularly well within traditional, country-house and layered contemporary interiors.

Catalogue Details

Artist: Stephen Enoch Hogley (1842-1927)

Title: Borrowdale, Cumberland

Date: Circa 1880

Medium: Oil on canvas

Genre: Victorian Landscape

Signature: Signed with the artist's initials

Inscription: Titled "Borrowdale, Cumberland" on a label verso

Canvas Dimensions: 35.5 cm high x 45.7 cm wide (14 x 18 inches)

Framed Dimensions: 46.5 cm high x 56.5 cm wide x 3.5 cm deep

Frame: Original ornate Victorian gilt frame

Reverse: G. Rowney & Co., London stamp to canvas

Catalogue Note

A farmer and cattle animate the foreground and provide scale against the wider Borrowdale landscape.

Hogley's brushwork shifts noticeably through the composition. The immediate landscape contains shorter descriptive touches, while pasture and woodland are increasingly broadly painted through the middle distance.

Across the mountains, the paint handling softens further, allowing the fells to dissolve naturally into atmospheric haze. Loose sweeping passages across the sky complement this movement from detail towards atmosphere.

The possible presence of **Glaramara or part of the Glaramara massif** gives the painting additional topographical interest, although the individual fell identification remains provisional.

Borrowdale

Borrowdale's combination of pastoral valley scenery and dramatic mountain forms made it an enduring subject for British landscape painters.

Hogley emphasises this contrast particularly effectively: the intimate scale of farmer and cattle is set against the much greater mass of the Cumberland fells.

The Artist

Yorkshire-born Stephen Enoch Hogley trained under Peace Sykes and studied drawing at the Holmfirth Mechanics' Institution.

He specialised in landscapes in oil and watercolour and became particularly associated with rural and mountainous subjects incorporating cattle and warm natural light.

Hogley later served on the council of the Yorkshire Union of Artists and exhibited beyond Yorkshire during his career.

G. Rowney & Co., London

A G. Rowney & Co., London stamp survives on the reverse of the canvas.

It is catalogued as an artists' materials supplier or canvas manufacturer's mark associated with the support, rather than an ownership mark.

Provenance

Private Southern UK collection.

Previously sold through Parker Fine Art Auctions Ltd.

Privately loaned and exhibited with the Famous Lord Hill Museum.

Subsequently curated and presented by Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD®.

Exhibition History

Famous Lord Hill Museum, private loan.

Dimensions

Canvas:

35.5 cm high x 45.7 cm wide
14 inches high x 18 inches wide

Framed:

46.5 cm high x 56.5 cm wide x 3.5 cm deep

Condition Report

Fair antique condition consistent with age.

Light craquelure, foxing and age-related marks are present.

The original gilt frame remains structurally sound with minor scuffs, wear and areas of overpainting.

Please examine all photographs carefully as they form an integral part of the condition report.

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