| A Cottage in Patterdale, Westmoreland | |
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| Artist | Philip James de Loutherbourg |
| Year | 1783 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, landscape painting |
| Dimensions | 39.5 cm× 57.5 cm(15.6 in× 22.6 in) |
| Location | Government Art Collection |
A Cottage in Patterdale, Westmoreland is a 1783 landscape painting by the French artist Philip James de Loutherbourg. [1] [2] It depicts a cottage at Patterdale in the Lake District. [3] Known as a pioneer of Romanticism, Loutherbourg moved and settled in Britain where he was elected a member of the Royal Academy.
The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1784 at Somerset House in London along with a companion piece Skiddaw in Cumberland. Today it is part of the Government Art Collection, having been acquired in 1954. [4]
