Thomas Sidney Cooper RA, Cow & Sheep In A Landscape

Thomas Sidney Cooper RA, Cow & Sheep In A LandscapeThis charming mid 19th century watercolour by British artist Thomas Sidney Cooper RA (1803 1902) depicts two sheep and a cow in a landscape. Cooper was a distinguished British painter of landscapes, animals and portraits who became one of the foremost masters of his genre despite facing extraordinary circumstances. He was affectionately known as Cow Cooper. Born in Canterbury, Kent, his early years were marked by abject poverty as his father, William

energy and atmosphere

Meyer’s exquisite portrayals of passing moments are an homage to the past

Wales and this view may be Lancastrian

Georg Jahn trained at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and the Grand-Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar

Crystal Palace

This early 20th-century oil painting by Danish artist Bodil Larsen Rohweder (1883-1975) depicts a woman holding a tray

She’s wearing a prominent gold cross and it’s likely that she’s holding the bible

Benjamin Barker of Bath began his career in a frenzy and never looked back

There’s a sense of movement

Between the window at the unsuspecting bird

The composition is dominated by a proud old windmill that stands on the brow of a hill

now housed in Dutch barns at the Old Warren Farm