Thomas James Soper, Rural Landscape With River & Distant Church

Thomas James Soper, Rural Landscape With River & Distant ChurchA charming Victorian oil on canvas by the ever popular painter, Thomas James Soper (1836 1890). Its a beautiful example of traditional British landscape painting from the mid 19th century. On the left of the composition, we see a boy walking alongside a donkey, perhaps returning home. Hes turning his head to look across the river towards a distant church and several grazing cows. The brow of a substantial hill is visible on the horizon. Soper was

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The painting is signed in the lower right and housed within a frame that’s probably its original

The painting is housed within a gold 19th-century frame with a raised foliate border

Overall size: 12½” x 13½” / 32cm x 35cm

A beautiful early 20th-century oil on canvas depicting a yellow and orange sunset over a mountain landscape

600 achieved at Christie’s

It’s very likely that Reignier painted this ‘en plein air’ (outside) while sat with his brushes admiring the view

working at a table while a bearded man stands alongside them

This piece seems to capture Hahn’s spirit and epitomise the respect he had for the everyday working man

1870Provenance: EnglandCondition: Areas of craquelure but the paint layer is stable

The original paper had torn around the edges and also in the middle but by attaching it

It’s based on an engraving by Gottfried Bernhard Göz (1708-1774)