Henry H Parker, Highland Loch With Cattle

Henry H Parker, Highland Loch With CattleThis early 20th century oil painting by British artist Henry Hillingford Parker (1858 1930) depicts a Highland loch with cattle, track and mountain. Parker adored the natural world and sought to capture its infinite beauty in all its tangled complexity. He spotted the subtleties that tantalise the eye and produced works with various layers of delight. He was a certain type of British landscape painter who remained resolute to the truth, much like his

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The first runs from the bottom left

See how her face is partially lit as she uses her hand as a shade

It’s a poignant vision of rural determination with the composition glorifying the central figure in oversized proportions

It’s possible that this gentleman is from that region and perhaps this was a study to prepare for a group scene

please refer to Nicholas Hilliard’s portrait of an unknown woman from 1593

A gentle and introspective interior scene by Swedish painter

Signed in the lower right and held within its original gilt frame

while the ancient ramp-like form of Arrenakke Bakke culminates in a sunlit peak

a hazy sun shimmered through orange mist

a portrait by François-Joseph Navez (1787-1869) depicting Théodore Joseph Jonet and his two daughters in 1832