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Painting by Philip James de Loutherbourg

A View near Matlock, Derbyshire

Artist	Philip James de Loutherbourg
Year	1785
Type	Oil on canvas, landscape painting
Dimensions	90.5 cm × 140 cm (35.62 in × 57 in)
Location	Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

A View near Matlock, Derbyshire is a 1785 landscape painting by the French-born British artist Philip James de Loutherbourg. It portrays a scene near Matlock in Derbyshire, close to the village of Matlock Bath in the Derwent Valley. Men are show at work beneath a wooden conveyor designed to draw water from a lead mine.

Born in Strasbourg, Loutherbourg settled in Britain in 1771 and was known for producing landscapes as well as his innovates set designs for the theatre. The artist painted and exhibited a number of depictions of the county including around Dovedale. Today it is in the Yale Center for British Art in Connecticut as part of the Paul Mellon Collection. An engraving based on the painting was produced by Joseph Constantine Stadler, with a copy now in the British Museum.

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Preston, Lillian Elvira. Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg: Eighteenth Century Romantic Artist and Scene Designer. University of Florida, 1977.

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Paintings	Landscape with Animals (1767) Moonlight (1777) Warley Camp (1780) A View near Matlock, Derbyshire (1785) The Falls of the Rhine at Schaffhausen (1788) The Grand Attack on Valenciennes (1794) Lord Howe's Action, or the Glorious First of June (1795) A Distant Hail-Storm Coming On (1799) Coalbrookdale by Night (1801) The Battle of Alexandria (1802) The Capture of the Chevrette (1802) An Avalanche in the Alps (1803)
Related	Charles-André van Loo (master) Francesco Giuseppe Casanova (master) Rococo Romanticism Theatre Royal, Drury Lane Eidophusikon Portrait of Philip James de Loutherbourg

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