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Early 20th Century Watercolour - Rural Scene with Figures and Horse Cart

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A fine watercolour landscape, depicting two figure in a wagon, driven by two horned cattle. The wagon can be seen in the foreground making its way along a country road with goods. We...

Signed with a monogram W. W. S. to the lower left. Well presented in a decorative gilt frame and wash line mount. On paper.

This charming study depicts a country lane with farm cottages. A mother and child feed gees and ducks on the cobblestones before vast countryside. Unsigned. Presented in a glazed gil...

Rural scene in watercolors. Presented in a gilt-effect frame with card mount. Unsigned. On watercolour paper.

Detailed European Landscape in Watercolor and Gouache on Paper This finely detailed watercolor painting captures a serene countryside setting with an old stone church, a rustic hous...

Graphite and watercolor on light weight salmon-colored wove paper, 4 1/4 x 7 5/8 inches (109 x 194 mm), the full sheet. An unfinished study in good condition. On the mat-back is a n...

Original Watercolour of Farmhouse in the Northern Ireland Countryside by 20th Century Irish Artist, D Hall Art measures 8 x 6 inches Frame measure...

Antique American watercolor painting, landscape harvest farm scene by Frank F. English (1854 - 1922), Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Circa 1900. A very attractive painting by the celebrated Pennsylvania artist Frank F. English, the location is in Point Pleasant, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The painting depicts a scene of blue skies with two farmers tossing hay with pitchforks & two horses harnessed to a hay wagon, with barns to the background. The painting signed lower right " Frank F. English", condition is excellent this very charming painting is ready to hang on your wall. Biography Frank F. English was born in Louisville Kentucky in 1854. In the early 1880s, he studied for five years in the evening classes of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. His instructors included Thomas Eakins, James P. Kelly and Thomas Anshutz. However, English's reputation primarily rests with his outstanding facility as a watercolorist; most of his known paintings are executed in this medium. English's propensity for its use coincides, appropriately enough, with the watercolor's growing popularity among other American painters. The American Water Color Society brought the medium special prominence by the late 1860s, and acceptance on the level of oil painting in 1876. That same year, the society was invited to display its works at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. Its members exhibited 116 watercolors, and their public exposure was enormous. It is safe to assume that during the 159-day Centennial, Frank English was among the nearly 10 million exposition attendees, surpassing attendance records at all preceding world's fairs. At age twenty-two, English, traveled to Philadelphia to see works by the Society's notables such as Samuel Colman, R. Swain Gifford, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Albert Fitch...