Pre-Impressionism
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of 30 paintings and watercolours, by Pre-Impressionist artists. The Pre-Impressionist artists represented in the collection included Eugène Boudin, Charles François Daubigny, Stanislas Lépine and Johann Barthold Jongkind. These artist were much admired by Scottish collectors – their works depicted the sea and rivers, the source of many of the collectors’ wealth, and were bathed in a grey light reminiscent of that of the west of Scotland. Sir William Burrell purchased two of Boudin’s finest paintings ‘Empress Eugènie on the Beach at Trouville’ and ‘The Jetty at Trouville’, which were gifted by Sir William and Lady Constance Burrell to the City of Glasgow in 1944. The important holdings of Boudin have been augmented by the 1996 gift of ‘Venice: Santa Maria della Salute and the Dogana seen from across the Grand Canal’ from the family of W F Robertson, and ‘The Port of Trouville’ and ‘Villefranche’ from the Lord and Lady Fraser of Allander Collection, 2003. Unlike the Impressionists these artists did not use broken brushstrokes or reflected light but their method of working – often outside and directly from nature – was important to the younger artists.
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