Landscape with Travellers

1792 · Private collection

landscape

This painting depicts a landscape with travellers in a horse drawn carriage and figures conversing by a track. In the rural scene, the artist creates a fine contrast between the frenetic coachman, spurring his horses into a furious gallop and the leisurely exchange amongst the group of figures in the foreground of the work.

About the Artist

Julius Caesar Ibbetson

1759 – 1817

English painter. His unusual Christian names were given to him because of his Caesarian birth. He specialized in fairly small landscapes with figures and animals. Benjamin West called him 'the Berchem of England'. Ibbetson worked mainly in his native Yorkshire, but also for a time in London and the Lake District, and he visited Java (1789). He worked in watercolour as well as oil and also made etchings. In 1803 he published a treatise on painting. Like his friend Morland, Ibbetson is said to have been given to dissipation, but his work did not obviously suffer because of this as Morland's did.

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