Henry Earp Senior

Henry Earp Senior (1831-1914) - Framed Watercolour, Cattle Watering

Late 19th Century

A simplistic watercolour scene with pencil detail attributed to Henry Birtles RA (1838-1907), depicting a small group of cattle drinking from a river, in a vast open landscape. A parent and child...

This delightful watercolour by Cecil Jack Keats, depicts four horned cattle watering in a shallow river. Areas of the painting have been carefully heightened with body color by the a...

A wonderful pastoral landscape by Edward Brook, depicting a small herd of cattle coming to water. Presented in a stunning gilt-effect frame with scale and acanthus ornamentation. Sig...

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

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...

If anyone would like to do the research on the painter “J. Ericson” who signed this wonderful late 19th-century painting of cows grazing in a swamp, you might find they were really n...

This finely executed watercolor painting depicts a tranquil pastoral landscape, featuring a gently winding river bordered by verdant meadows adorned with haystacks. The artist employ...

A finely executed early 20th century 'plein air' landscape by noted British landscape artist Henry John Kinnaird, titled ‘View of Winchester Cathed...