A Ruined Castle on a Lake
1881 · watercolor over graphite on wove paper
overall: 14 x 22.9 cm (5 1/2 x 9 in.)
National Gallery of Art
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William Leighton Leitch
British, 1804–1883
WA-00049074
Glasgow
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None documented
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Institutional Exhibitions
5
Works in Collection
32
Assets Indexed
2
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Publications Referenced
70%
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Authority Records (1)
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- Is PublishedManual· 100%✓
- Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
Source Registry (2)
- AicTier 3 · Scraped/inferred95%
- Artsy (bulk)Tier 1 · Institutional85%
About
Why this artist matters now
William Leighton Leitch was a master Scottish landscape watercolourist and illustrator. He was Drawing Master to Queen Victoria for 22 years. He was Vice President of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, on Pall Mall in London, for twenty years.
Source: Aic · Trust score: 95% · Updated 9d ago
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Artworks (5)
Artwork sources (5)
5 published of 17 catalogued · 17 with image
- The Met2 published2 img
- Rijksmuseum1 published1 img
- Cleveland Museum of Art1 published1 img
- Nga1 published1 img
- + 1 more source · 12 catalogued, not yet published
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2 entries · 1 sources
- 1814 · Rijksmuseum · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
- 1872 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
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Art Institute of Chicago
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