The Duke of Buccleuch is a trustee of the Royal Collection Trust and president of the Georgian Group. The Buccleuch art collection includes works by Thomas Gainsborough, Anthony van Dyck and Claude Lorrain
I love this engagingly beautiful antidote to dark, damp winter nights, with its sunlit glare from the chalk cliffs, which frame a view as if to infinity over the Baltic. I love its mystery. Two spectators, backs turned, risk their lives on the precipice edge in unexplained, but animated search, as their companion, arms crossed, absorbs the flickering, ephemeral tones of ocean merging into sky and two tiny, distant sailboats, stands motionless, remote. Is he, to quote a contemporary Romantic poet, “feeling himself into Nature”, grappling with the sense of the unfathomable and the spiritual that lies…
