A Golf Match at St Andrews in 1868 by Sam Bough

The golf is almost secondary to what is otherwise a landscape with sheep. The gulls hint at the proximity of the sea. The artist added an inscription on the reverse of the painting, which reads: “A Golf-Match at St Andrews. Painted on the spot. Sam Bough 1868.”

Bough was from Carlisle, in Cumbria, and was a well-known 19th century landscape and seascape artist.