Heidelberg Castle

1825·Brush and black ink and gray wash, over graphite, on cream wove paper, laid down on blue covered wove card·47.4 × 33.2 cm (18 11/16 × 13 1/8 in.)

Catalogue

Year: 1825
Medium: Brush and black ink and gray wash, over graphite, on cream wove paper, laid down on blue covered wove card
Dimensions: 47.4 × 33.2 cm (18 11/16 × 13 1/8 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Samuel Prout

Artist

Samuel Prout

Painting

Samuel Prout was a British watercolourist, and one of the masters of watercolour architectural painting. Prout secured the position of Painter in Water-Colours in Ordinary to King George IV in 1829 and afterwards to Queen Victoria. John Ruskin, whose work often emulated Prout's, wrote in 1844, "Sometimes I tire of Turner, but never of Prout". Prout is often compared to his contemporaries: Turner, Constable and Ruskin, whom he taught. He was the uncle of the artist John Skinner Prout.

Plymouth, UK

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