Pulling in the Creel Nets - British Victorian art river landscape oil painting

Circa 1865

This interesting British 19th century coastal landscape oil painting is by noted Suffolk School artist Edward Robert Smythe. Painted circa 1850 it is a busy coastal landscape with fi...

This superb British Victorian Pre-Raphaelite conversation piece figurative oil painting is attributed to Thomas Musgrave Joy, artist to Queen Victoria. Painted circa 1845 the composi...

A fine and very detailed large Victorian British landscape painting. Painted in oil on canvas it is by listed and exhibited Victorian artist George Cole, dated 1859. A wonderful larg...

This lovely British Victorian landscape oil painting is attributed to noted artist Sam Bough. It was painted circa 1855 after Bough had moved to Hamilton Lanarkshire in Scotland to focus on painting landscapes along side fellow artist Alexander Frazer. The composition is several cattle watering in a stream under the boughs of an ancient tree. There is superb impasto, for example on the clouds and this is a charming 19th century oil painting. Provenance. London estate. Condition. Oil on canvas, 29 inches by 16 inches unframed and in good condition. Frame. Housed in an ornate gilt Victorian frame, 36 inches by 23 inches framed and in good condition. Samuel Bough RSA (1822–1878) was an English-born landscape painter who spent much of his career working in Scotland. He was born the third of five children in Abbey Street, Carlisle in northern England, the son of James Bough (1794-1845), a shoemaker, and Lucy Walker, a cook. He was raised in relative poverty, but with a keen encouragement in the arts. He was self-taught but mixed with local artists such as Richard Harrington and George Sheffield, and was strongly influenced by the work of Turner. After an unsuccessful attempt to live as an artist in Carlisle he obtained a job and as a theatre scenery painter in Manchester in 1845, later also working in Glasgow in the same role. Encouraged by Daniel Macnee to take up landscape painting he moved to Hamilton from 1851-4 and worked there with Alexander Fraser. In 1854 he moved to Port Glasgow to work on his technique of painting ships and harbours. His paintings were noted for their sensitivity to atmosphere and light, were often of cloudy shorelines and busy harbours. He also began supplementing his income by illustrating books, before moving to Edinburgh in 1855. On coming to Edinburgh he lived in a terraced house at 5 Malta Terrace in the Stockbridge area of the city. Following Turner's example, he became a skilful painter of seaports. He was buried in Dean Cemetery Edinburgh on 23 November 1878. The grave bears a bronze medallion of his head by William Brodie...

Benjamin Williams Leader RA British, (1831-1923) Evening on the Severn Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1904, further inscribed verso Image size: 29.25 inches x 47.25 inches Size incl...

Coastal landscape with fishermen hanging their nets, signed and dated “Colin Hunter 1878”, oil on canvas. This evocative coastal scene with a cloudy sky depicts fishermen at work alo...

Benjamin Williams Leader RA British, (1831-1923) The Thames at Goring Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1875, further inscribed on stretcher in pencil to reverse Image size: 23.25 inches...

Stuart Lloyd British, (1858-1926) Evening Glow Oil on canvas, signed Image size: 19.5 inches x 29.5 inches Size including frame: 27.5 inches x 37.5 inches An atmospheric painting of boats on a river at sunset by Stuart Lloyd. A group of figures are shown in front of a cottage as fishermen in their boats prepare to head ashore. In the distance a hay barge sails towards a church and other buildings. Stuart Lloyd or Walter Stuart Lloyd...