John Campbell Mitchell RSA, Summer Day Understated with pencil

with pencil

the heat punctuated by a light breeze as the artist sketches from a woodland clearing

Apparently

Each of his genre scenes found an audience and they were incredibly successful

John Campbell Mitchell RSA, Summer Day Understated with pencilThis spirited early 20th century oil painting by Scottish artist John Campbell Mitchell RSA (1862 1922) depicts an undulant moorland landscape with grazing sheep. Its possibly a view in Galloway. Mitchell was a well respected painter of landscapes and a member of the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA). Mitchell was born in Campbeltown, Argyll, where the ever changing skies were a feast for the imagination. As a boy, hed gaze up at the skittish clouds as