🌄 “Thirlmere with Helvellyn, Lake District” – Watercolour by Edward Horace Thompson, c. 1925

🖌 Subject & Medium
This atmospheric watercolour painting by Edward Horace Thompson beautifully captures a Lake District view in Cumbria, featuring the serene Thirlmere reservoir with the majestic Helvellyn mountain rising beyond. Executed on paper and protected under glass, the piece preserves its delicate tones and refined brushwork. Dated 1925.

🎨 Composition & Technique
Thompson’s keen perspective draws the eye naturally through the scene. Light and shadow are balanced with mastery: shimmering white highlights dance on the lake, contrasting with deeper passages of water. In the foreground, vivid green grasses, purple heather in bloom, and a lone upright tree create depth and interest. Behind them, sloping hills and mist-veiled peaks fade into the distance. The left-hand slopes glow in golden light, while above, shifting clouds part to reveal touches of blue sky. His palette — greens, browns, purples, whites, greys, and blues — achieves a lively yet harmonious landscape.

✍️ Signed
Signed in the corner by Edward Horace Thompson, a listed British landscape artist, ensuring and adding to its collectibility.

👤 About the Artist
Edward Horace Thompson (1879–1949) ranks among Cumbria’s most beloved painters. Born in Seaton, he worked in a factory office before dedicating himself fully to art. Establishing a studio in Cockermouth, he painted prolifically, with works now in private collections worldwide. His paintings have been shown at Gladstone & Patterson and sold at reputable auction houses affirming his enduring reputation.

🌍 About Thirlmere & Helvellyn

• Helvellyn: The Lake District’s third-highest mountain, famed for its dramatic ridges — Striding Edge and Swirral Edge — and celebrated in verse by Wordsworth and Coleridge.

• Thirlmere: Once a narrow natural lake, transformed in the 19th century into a reservoir to supply Manchester. Its surrounding fells, such as Raven Crag and Armboth Fell, provide sweeping views of lake and mountain alike.

This timeless scenery has inspired poets, walkers, and artists for centuries, making Thompson’s painting part of a celebrated artistic tradition.

🖼 Frame Details
Housed in a newly fitted Larson Julh gilt frame with floral foliage moulding. A classic mount enhances the work, and a rear hanging thread allows immediate display.

📏 Dimensions (Framed)

• Width: 58 cm

• Height: 52 cm

• Depth: 5.5 cm
  Perfect for home, office, or gallery settings.

📜 Provenance

• From a private collection

• Gray & Sons LTD Carlisle

• Acquired from a notable northern Auction house

• Curated by Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD

💖 Why You’ll Love It
✅ Striking signed British landscape
✅ By a listed artist
✅ Professionally framed & ready to hang
✅ Steeped in natural and cultural history
✅ Ideal collector’s piece and conversation starter
✅ Offered with professional, friendly service

🔍 Condition

• Painting: Good overall, with light foxing in areas

• Mount: Excellent, recently fitted

• Frame: Excellent, recently fitted with AR70 museum-quality protective anti-reflective glass

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