WILLIAM TAYLOR LONGMIRE (1841-1914)
The Langdale Pikes (739 m - 2,424 ft)
United Kingdom ( England)
The mountains
The Langdale Pikes range (739 m - 2,424 ft) rises along the northern slope of the Great Langdale Valley (Cumbria, England). The Langdale Pikes are (from west to east) the Pike of Stickle, the Loft Crag, the Harrison Stickle and Pavey Ark. From the valley, it take on the appearance of a steep rocky ridge, but only the southern slope actually has steep peaks; on the north slope, the slopes gently incline towards High Raise, twin summit of this range. Harrison Stickle (739 m - 2,424 ft) is the highest point of the Langdale Pikes; Pike of Stickle is 700 m - 2,296 ft high ; Loft Crag (682m-2,237ft )is located halfway between Harrison Stickle and Pike o ’Stickle ; The last peak iof the range is Pavey Ark (700 m - 2,296 ft ).
The painter
William T. Longmire was expected to follow in his father’s steps and become a farmer but, encouraged to paint by the local vicar, he had set himself up in a studio in Ambleside by the age of thirty, following in the footsteps of William Green and Harriet Martineau. Unlike Martineau and Green, Longmire was born and grew up in Westmorland, making him a pioneer in looking beyond a life as a farmer, instead taking advantage of the continued growth in tourism. He is well known for his numerous watercolours of english landscape in which he frequently depicted sheeps!
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