William Joseph Shayer

In the Country

Oil on canvas Canvas size: 10 x 18 inches Framed size: 15.5 x 23.5 inches Signed

Oil on canvas Canvas size: 18 x 26 inches Framed size: 22.5 x 30.5 inches Signed lower right

Oil on canvas Canvas size: 24 x 36 inches Framed size: 36.75 x 48.75 inches Signed lower right

Waterside Pastures by Sidney Richard Percy British, 1821-1886 Oil on canvas Canvas size: 18 x 26 inches Framed size: 23 x 31 inches Signed and dated lower left, 1882

The Country House - Farm Landscape Highly detailed scene with a country house, workers, and a hare with rider by an unknown artist (19th Century). Five people - one on a horse - are...

C. 20th Century European Countryside Scene / Oil on Canvas Board ( NO visible Signature )

In the manner of Jean-Francoise Milet, 1814-1875, was a French artist, and one of the founders of the Barbizon School of painters. Milet influenced a great many painters throughout ...

Late 19th/early 20th century oil on canvas painting in the manner of Abraham Hulk the Younger (1851-1922), and George Vincent (1796-1832). These artists painted in the Dutch style, though both are British. Each has had experience with Dutch masters that influence their work. George Vincent’s work is perhaps even closer to this than Hulk’s. Vincent paints the trees and skies with the warm hues of light infused on the work. Here, the sky has blue but also a khaki or tan shade, roughed into the blue and white. It is an unusual color in skies, yet Vincent shows us the light through clouds castingva darker shade. The trees are varied greens but also yellowed leaves, as in autumn. Presented in a period decorative gilt frame, the painting is of a cottage in a woodland with cattle by a pond, a little black dog and man and a woman standing by. In the distance is a glimpse of a river and grasses, framed by trees and an overcast sky. Hulk is renowned for his treatment of the changing season from summer to autumn, and the golden leaves and fading greens in this painting suggest this changing time of year. Hulk is the son of a well known Dutch maritime...