No "slow flow of Glasgow" would be complete without a few paintings by the Paisley-born landscape artist John Knox (1778-1845). His works (a few of which can be seen in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery) include several pastoral landscapes of the Clyde estuary which give us some idea of how things have changed (or not) in this area in the interim two hundred years since they were painted. Other notable paintings by Knox include two views from the summit of Ben Lomond (both in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery), and 'The First Steamboat on the Clyde' (c.1820).
Knox was heavily influenced by the style of another Scot, Alexander Nasmyth, who was 20 years older and who, along with his family, was amongst the first exponents of Scottish landscape painting during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Knox and his pupil Horatio McCulloch continued this tradition during the mid to late 19th century, with McCulloch later becoming the acknowledged master of the archetypal Highland landscape. This was the 'slow' Scotland that became a magnet for tourists from all over the world, and artists such as Turner, Landseer, and Arthur Perigal Jr.
Below are some of Knox's bucolic views and sylvan settings juxtaposed against photographs from the present day.
Knox was heavily influenced by the style of another Scot, Alexander Nasmyth, who was 20 years older and who, along with his family, was amongst the first exponents of Scottish landscape painting during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Knox and his pupil Horatio McCulloch continued this tradition during the mid to late 19th century, with McCulloch later becoming the acknowledged master of the archetypal Highland landscape. This was the 'slow' Scotland that became a magnet for tourists from all over the world, and artists such as Turner, Landseer, and Arthur Perigal Jr.
Below are some of Knox's bucolic views and sylvan settings juxtaposed against photographs from the present day.
(Above) View of the Clyde, c.1820
(Below) View of the Clyde from Faifley & Duntocher c.1825
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