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Do you recognise this landscape?
VisitScotlandJulie
Member, Moderator, VisitScotland Staff ✩
I have received a special request from a gentleman with a painting. Can anyone identify the location of this landscape painting, apparently painted by Sir Edwin Landseer? It is presumed to be a landscape of somewhere in the Highlands. Do you recognise this location or can you offer an inspired suggestion?
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If anyone has any further thoughts, please feel free to comment.
Well...anyway... here is the painting in question...
Case closed.
I want to thank Fotoma for the quick response to my question about my painting. I've never been there, but was struck by the beauty and simpleness of the little harbour and all the walls, to stop storms from coming in. I got the picture from a folder about travelling to Scotland. If anyone is interested in buying my painting Let me know. I loved making it. You can find me on Facebook
"I looked really carefully at Castle Ewen and “drove” along the road there on google, and I am sure the view is not there. Basically the skyline is quite different, and also the distinctive crag in the painting is about 1-2km away from the viewer. The Castle Ewen Crag is only about 100 yards or so above the loch according to google maps. So your Secret_Highlands member is, I believe, right in Stac Pollaidh.. If you could post this reply for me so I can have his opinion on one aspect though?(or anyone else who knows it up there). It is very remote, no roads near etc, but in the painting there is a fishing boat with 2 men and a rod in the foreground. How did that get there…? The view is from the East probably from Loch Lon na h-Uamha, and the gully on the right in the painting is Allt Lon na h-Uamha, and the view may be from the small peninsular on the west side of the loch. Or it could be from the loch just a bit further away (East) called Loch an Doire Dhuibh. From these lochs to Stac Pollaidh is about 2 kilometres and the skyline seems a perfect match. Is there a local club I should contact whose members could try to take a photo some time next year when on a walk up there?"
I have been sent another picture to identify. Phill's picture is a print and he thinks it may be the River Tweed but he would like a second opinion. Unfortunately there are no defining landmarks to make it easier.
Does anyone recognise this landscape?
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fishypro
Can anyone else help us out?
fishypro
The mountain shape matches exactly. Also, if you pay close attention to the painting, you will see 2 houses on the slope of the mountain that also match with the pictures that you can find on the internet if you type in 'Sgurr of Eigg'
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