“Loch Katrine” by Horatio McCulloch in Perth Museum, Perth, Scotland

From Perth Museum website:

Horatio McCulloch’s Highland landscapes were romantic and dramatic, ground-breaking works for their time. This oil painting, with the mountain, Ben Venue in the background, was inspired by Sir Walter Scott’s poem, The Lady of the Lake (1810). After the poem was published, Loch Katrine in the west of Perthshire, became a major tourist attraction.

During his lifetime, Horatio McCulloch (1805-1867) became the best-known and most successful landscape painter in Scotland. His works were part of a wide-ranging cultural shift which reframed the Scottish Highlands as an empty wilderness, a modern conception which disregarded the Highland communities that were being denuded through the social and economic forces of the Clearances, and contributed to the erasure of Gaelic language and culture. We live with the legacy of this orchestrated conception and the idea of the Highlands as an expansive and empty wilderness is still used to promote Scotland and Scottish products.

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Perth Museum, Perth
Material: Oil on canvas
Artist: William Brown (1798–1874)
Date: 1842

Image details
Date: 8 February 2025
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Telephoto Camera 52mm ƒ/2.4
Focal Length: 52mm
Aperture: ƒ/2.4
Shutter Speed: 1/60s
ISO: 320
Licensing: Image of a Perth Museum asset. This image cannot be licensed.