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K.K - Framed 19th Century Oil, In the Wheat Fields

19th Century

A charming early 20th century oil depicting the seasonal task of bring in the hay. Here, a farmhand can be seen riding the hay cart back to the yard along a picturesque country lane....

This charming Victorian oil depicts a young girl innocently playing by a pond with ducks. The child can be seen grasping a long stick in her left hand, enticing the paddling birds cl...

This painting is in excellent condition and signed lower right. William Hicok Low first trained with the sculptor Erastus Dow Palmer. When he was 17, he worked in New York City as an illustrator and years later traveled to Paris to study with Jean-Léon Gérôme and Carolus-Duran. During his years in France he summered with the Barbizon artists where he was especially influenced by the work of François Millet. In the United States, he became active as a muralist, illustrator, and decorative painter, performing prominent commissions such as the ceiling murals and decorations of New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel. His Beaux Arts classicism inspired Louis Comfort Tiffany and other of his younger colleagues. After 1900, as artistic styles changed, there was less demand for his work but he continued to write art criticism for Scribner's and The Century magazine...

Arthur Walker Redgate British, (1860-1906) The Harvesters Oil on canvas, signed Image size: 19.25 inches x 29.25 inches Size including frame: 27 inches x 37 inches A pleasing lands...