Edward Williams (Circle), River Landscape With Thatched Cottage, Boatmen & Windmill

Edward Williams (Circle), River Landscape With Thatched Cottage, Boatmen & WindmillThis charming mid 19th century oil painting depicts a river landscape with a thatched cottage, boatmen, and windmill. Its reminiscent of works by English artist Edward Williams (1781 1855). Modelled somewhat on the luminaries of the Dutch Golden Age, this rugged depiction of rural life dates to around 1850. On the right, a rowing boat, probably a river ferry, transports its be hatted passengers from a time worn jetty across a shimmering waterway.

Tommaso de Simone lived and worked in Naples

She’s regarded as a pioneer of still life painting in Italy

An impressionistic oil on canvas depicting a colourful view of Dordrecht Seaport in Holland

circa 1780

a muscular grey horse rests unsaddled

an enchanting 17th-century tapestry adorns the back wall while the Venus de Milo stands imperiously upon a plinth

a gentleman chats to a weary friend who’s resting under an old tree

A beautiful early Victorian English school portrait of a lady holding a child

Fritz Halberg-Krauss was predominantly known for his painterly impressionistic landscapes

It was during this time that the great landscape painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875) began to explore Fontainebleau

The ‘Gipsy’ is heeling

It’s early and the boat is at one with nature