Peter Le Cave

1769 - 1810

Peter Le Cave was a landscape painter, based in London, specialising in watercolour scenes showing cattle within a landscape, as in the present example. However, he also worked in oil and pastel, as well as making etchings. Le Cave, who exhibited two works at the Royal Academy in 1801, is known to have been a friend of landscape and watercolour painter Julius Caesar Ibbetson (1759–1817), who, sometime between 1803 and 1805, moved to the town of Masham in North Yorkshire. Nothing is known of what happened to Le Cave after 1803, but he may have followed his friend to Yorkshire.

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