George Boyle, Pastoral Landscape With Cattle

George Boyle, Pastoral Landscape With CattleThis spirited late 19th century oil painting by British artist George Boyle (1842 1930) depicts a pastoral scene with cows grazing by a river. Boyle was a pioneering landscape painter and one of the forerunners of British naturalism, but much overlooked both in his lifetime and today. Under a resplendent sky, synonymous with the buoyancy of an English summer, cows graze among verdant pasture. Beyond, a tiled farmhouse with a white picket fence is

He was particularly skilled at rendering light effects within rooms adorned with antiques and this piece from 1937 is a fine example of his talent

Canvas cut down and relined

Josef Jungwirth (1869-1950)

This early 19th-century half-length portrait attributed to British artist George Clint ARA (1770-1854) depicts a young lady wearing a beautiful brown dress

he was self-taught and deeply influenced by the works of the 17th-century Dutch masters

they were traced by their feathers to a part of Endcliffe Wood

contrary to his academic contemporaries

When the pace was dictated by the reassuring tick of a grandfather clock

Constructed in 1800

A large group portrait of this nature is worthy of closer inspection as each figure carries its own story for you to unravel

Year of creation: 1912

which suggests that the monogram could be a way of referencing Cranach without copying his symbol