At the Blacksmith's Shop

Provenance: Anon. sale, Christie’s, London, 5 June 1998, lot 32 (25,300 Euro), Signed, Oil on Canvas. Son of John Frederick Herring Sr. The Junior Herring painted farm and equestria...

Focusing on painting coaching and driving scenes. Standing mainly paints in watercolors and has chosen that as his medium. Little is known about the artist but it is believed that he...

Heywood Hardy British, (1842-1933) A Visit to the Blacksmith’s Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1902 Image size: 26.75 inches x 22 inches Size including frame: 34.5 inches x 29.75 inches Provenance: Willow Gallery, Duke Street, London A wonderful painting of a lady and gentleman in 18th century costume visiting a blacksmith's by Heywood Hardy. To the left, a woman is shown sitting side saddle upon a bay horse, facing towards a blacksmith's forge. To her right, a man wearing a red coat and black hat watches on as a farrier shoes a grey horse. Meanwhile, a foxhound stands in the middle of the group, with its attention caught by the woman and her horse. Heywood Hardy was born into an artistic family in Chichester, Sussex on the 25 November, 1842 to the portrait and genre painter James Hardy Snr (1801-1879) and his wife Elizabeth. His cousins Frederick Daniel Hardy...

Charles Hunt Jnr British, (1829-1900) A Visitor Calls Oil on canvas, signed Image size: 24.75 inches x 34.75 inches Size including frame: 32.25 inches x 42.25 inches A wonderful genre painting by Charles Hunt of two men and two boys with horses and other animals in a cottage. A farmer and his two sons can be seen eating lunch at a table in rustic interior as a visitor approaches. Perhaps encouraged by the boys, a piglet seems to have found its way onto the table whilst a rabbit and guinea pig eat cabbage leaves on the floor. To the far right, a horse is shown in a stable area along with some piglets. To the far left, a terrier waits on the step by its master. Charles Hunt was a genre and figure painter born in Kensington, London in 1829. His sons Reuben Hunt...