A Mountain Torrent Near Llyn Dulyn
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Llyn Dulyn translates as 'black lake' in Welsh. It is a lake situated on the edge of the Carneddau range of mountains in Snowdonia, North Wales.
Hartland was self-taught and worked as a scene painter for a theatre in Cork. He exhibited landscapes, principally in watercolour at the Royal Academy from 1869 to 1889 and at the Royal Society of British Artists from 1868 to 1889. He returned to Ireland several times, where he painted decorations for the Theatre Royal, Dublin. He had moved to Liverpool by 1871 and exhibited at the Liverpool Autumn Exhibition from 1872 until 1980. He was a member of the Liverpool Academy and the Liverpool Society of Painters in Watercolours.