St. Andrew Square

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

20675

Title

St. Andrew Square

Description

Depicting a street scene of St. Andrew Square, Edinburgh. Various figures inhabit the square, including a soldier escorting a lady on a walk, a mother and child, a horse and carriage and various other figures parading across the square.
A large monument, featuring a column and statue stands to the right of the painting. The monument commemorates the life of Henry Dundas Melville and stands within the St Andrew Square Gardens. The watercolour has been greatly executed giving the viewer a sense of the hustle and bustle of this well known Edinburgh location.

Artist / maker

Bossoli, Carlo

Date

1853

Size

28.2 x 51.0cm

Type

Gouache on paper

Location

City Art Centre

Accession number

CAC1986/11

Carlo Bossoli spent his youth and the beginning of his artistic career in Odessa, Ukraine. In 1839 he travelled to Italy for the first time where he remained for a year. Over the following years, Bossoli spent the majority of his time travelling and painting. These years were the most productive periods of his artistic life. In 1850 Bossoli travelled to Britain and spent some time in Scotland. In 1853 and in 1855, he returned to London where in 1854, he published Views of the Crimea, in which he showed some of the works executed during his youth. They give a detailed survey of the works executed during his youth. They give a detailed survey of the landscape, always reproduced with great consideration and enriched with little scenes of local colour that bestow a particular note on Bossoli's work.

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