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Nathaniel Hone RHA 1831-1917



Malahide Pastures

Commission Sale; price on application; dominic@mpfa.ie

Oil on canvas laid on board, 19 x 30 inches

Provenance
John Chambers Collection, Dublin, 1992;
Private Collection, Dublin

Nathaniel Hone is perhaps best known for his celebrated painting, Pastures at Malahide, which he donated to the National Gallery of Ireland in 1907. Bodkin gives a good description of the painting in his 1920 compendium, ‘Four Irish Landscape Painters’. “The heavy rain cloud to the right is of reddish hue, merging into cool purple grey. There is a little clear blue sky in the upper left corner. A burst of sunlight illuminates the ploughed upland. The long grove of trees in the background is dark, luscious green, composed mainly of a mixture of chrome yellow and ivory black. The patches of ragweed scattered through the pasture are painted with the same colour. The cows are red and white. The work was done very rapidly and dexterously with fluid paint richly, but thinly, laid.”

The pasturage was on Hone’s doorstep so it is not surprising that he returned to it on regular occasions. However, thanks to the ever-changing light and clouds rolling in off the sea, there was little fear of sameness. The current view is taken from a slightly different angle the the NGI painting and shows a closer view of the grove of trees. The contours of the ploughed upland, which is set further off in the distance, provide a well defined balance to the painting. In both works, the edge of the wood runs down to a hedgerow, which acts a subtle demarcation in setting the dept and perspective of the composition.

The atmospheric sky, confidently painted in broad strokes of the brush, casts a soft glow on the white patches of the cattle and throws a delicate light on the foreground grasses and the ploughed fields beyond. In common with Pastures at Malahide, the outline of the trees is repeated in the clouds, which float above them; a classical technique which indicates Hone’s formal training. He captures the pose and shape of the cattle with nothing more than a few delicately placed blobs of paint. No attempt is made to depict detail, which is testament to the skill and mastery Hone had developed by this time.
 

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