19th-Century English School, Portrait Of A Chestnut Horse & Girl

19th-Century English School, Portrait Of A Chestnut Horse & GirlThis adorable mid 19th century English School oil painting depicts a young girl and chestnut horse before a landscape. Standing quietly within the picturesque scenery of the family estate, a girl and her beloved horse. She knows it well, probably feeding it on occasion and visiting the stables with her mother. Her outfit is synonymous with the 1860s, a small bell shaped dress in light blue with white hoops, topped off with a wide brimmed summer hat.

It’s a veritable rural Utopia and a far cry from the bustle of industrialised cities

with trousers rolled up ahead of dangling legs

A fine 19th-century engraving titled ‘Picciola preda il desi nostro appaga’ after a work by Francesco Zuccarelli (1702-1788)

spots and shades

The portrait is signed/dated in the lower right and housed within a period frame

Smith was one of the foremost figures within the Boston art scene and well connected within a circle of highly regarded artists

You seek inspiration from another time of great artistic renewal

the flowers are set against a dark background

The engravings are framed and glazed

This enchanting mid-19th-century landscape by British artist Joseph Newington Carter (1835-1871) depicts a coastal scene by St Michael’s Mount in Cornwall

There’s something a little Pre-Raphaelite about this image and it’s less conventional than many of his other works

Elisabeth (Lilli) Charlotte Lundsteen was primarily a painter of portraits and still lifes