This Is London - 31 January 2020

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artists, the specialist mountain painter,
James Hart-Dyke and work by
landscapist, Michael Bennallack Hart.
As well as representing the better
known mountains and resorts, such as
Chamonix, Zermatt, Megève, Tignes,
Grindelwald, Davos, Klosters and Mürren
to name but a few, the exhibition also
traces the changes that have occurred in
the Alps over the last 150 years. Today,
these changes are all the more visible and
relevant due to a changing climate in what
was once dubbed in the late nineteenth
century as The Playground of Europe.
William Mitchell of John Mitchell Fine
Paintings is the leading specialist in
Alpine art and combines his interest in
mountaineering with the history of the
PEAKS & GLACIERS AT JOHN MITCHELL FINE PAINTINGS
Every winter since 2001, John Mitchell Fine Paintings has
put on a specialist exhibition of paintings, drawings and
vintage photographs of the Alps.
Peaks & Glaciers offers works from
the mid-1800s to the present day with
an emphasis on views painted by
specialist Alpine painters – ‘peintresalpinistes’
– who were both artists and
climbers, for example, Edward Theodore
Compton, Gabriel Loppé, Charles-Henri
Contencin, Franz Schrader and Jacques
Fourcy. This year’s Peaks & Glaciers will
also include paintings by two living
Alps and in 2018 wrote the first book
about the French painter and mountaineer,
Gabriel Loppé (1825-1913).
Peaks & Glaciers 2020 will show
circa. 50 pictures by Swiss, French,
German, Austrian, British and American
artists with prices starting from £500 to
£50,000. Given the variety of subject
matter: high-altitude views, glaciers and
Alpine valleys at all times of the year, the
exhibition appeals to a wide-ranging
audience whether avid climbers, skiers
or walkers. The gallery also holds a
large stock of vintage photographs of the
Alps dating from the 1870s onwards.
A fully illustrated catalogue is
available from the gallery at £20 and
online at www.johnmitchell.net
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