Joseph Thurman Pearson Jr.

Horses Feeding, American Impressionist Landscape and Equestrian Painting

1920's

Afternoon ride is a pair of, 13 x 9 inches each, equestrian paintings by Pennsylvania painter James N Hess. One is signed in the lower left, one is signed in the lower right. Animal...

"Spring Path" is an Impressionist landscape with farmhouse and blooming springtime trees by American painter Albert Van Nesse Greene. The painting is a 16" x 20" oil on canvas, framed in a 22K gold reproduction frame, and signed in the lower left. Provenance: Private Collection, Doylestown, Pennsylvania...

Hellmuth Bachrach-Baree, a German artist, apprenticed with neo-impressionist painters. His early compositions depicted rural life, integrating people and animals into familiar landsc...

This wonderful Post Impressionist exhibited horses portrait oil painting is by noted British artist Edgar Downs. Painted in 1912 it was exhibited the same year at the Royal Academy London. The painting is of two magnificent horses, one white one brown, waiting patiently while a man leans over to open the gate. Beyond is a canopy of trees. The impressionist brushwork and strong impasto create a light which is vibrant and colourful. This is an excellent example of Downs' work and one can see his infinity with the natural world. Signed and date lower right. Provenance. Exhibited at the Royal Academy London 1912 no. 789. Condition. Oil on canvas, image size is 36 inches by 30 inches and in good condition. Frame. Housed in a complementary frame 44 inches by 38 inches and in good condition. Edgar Downs, ROI, (1876–1963) was a British painter, known for painting agricultural scenes. Downs was born on 12 October 1876 at Claughton, Birkenhead, the son of William Downs. He was educated at Birkenhead School and the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, and received a silver medal there. He exhibited paintings called Our Daily Bread and The Edge of the Bog at the Royal Academy in 1911, when his address was given as 12 Bedford Gardens, Kensington, London. His other addresses included Arun House at Clymping, West Sussex, and latterly Mudeford, Hampshire where he died. During World War I, he served as a war artist, including spells at Gallipoli in 1915 and Salonica in 1916. He was assigned to the 1st County of London Yeomanry in July 1918. One of his paintings made at this time hangs in the Headquarters of the Inns of Court & City Yeomanry. Two of his works, Gathering Kelp (1914) and Cattle Ploughing in an Open Landscape (c. 1914), are in the collection of Fordingbridge Town Council at Fordingbridge Town Hall. He was a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters ("ROI"), the London Sketch...