Glenartney’s Hazel Glade

This oil painting in Perth Museum was inspired by Walter Scott's poem, The Lady of the Lake. After the poem was published, Loch Katrine in the west of Perthshire became a major tourist attraction.
Horatio McCulloch became the best-known and most successful landscape painter in Victorian Scotland.
His works were part of a reframing of the Scottish
Highlands as an empty wilderness. This idea disregarded the Highland communities that were still being displaced by landlords clearing their lands for new more profitable or sporting uses. 8h