William Traies (Attributed), Wooded River Landscape With Cascade, Figures & Cattle

William Traies (Attributed), Wooded River Landscape With Cascade, Figures & CattleThis charming mid 19th century oil painting attributed to English artist William Traies (1789 1872) depicts a picturesque river view with cascade, figures and cattle. Traies was an accomplished landscape painter, well admired for his numerous renderings of Devonshire idyls. A gnarled tree stretches its sinuous branches as if yawning amid nature's melody. Its perhaps early morning, an ideal environment for fishing. The shimmering river, punctuated by

overgrown foliage

In many of these

Overall size: 37½” x 25½” / 95cm x 65cm

He’s wearing a clerical collar

Like many academy-trained painters from this period

she peers back across the decades - captured in pencil and watercolour over a century ago

He continued working into old age and spent his later years in the suburbs of Paris with his wife and children

It’s a delightful array of evening tones with highlights daubed in with thick oils

he exhibited at several museums including the Zorn Museum and the Hudiksvall Museum

he returned to England to pursue a career as an artist

who offered her a place at his painting school in Copenhagen

Galvanised by these experiences