Thomas Baker of Leamington

19th Century landscape oil painting of cattle

1860

Charles Jones British, (1836-1892) Sheep in a Landscape Oil on canvas, signed with monogram & dated (18)81 Image size: 25.5 inches x 44.25 inches Size including frame: 32.75 inches x 51.5 inches Charles Jones was an animal painter who was born in Stepney, London in 1836. He was the son of the artist Samuel John Egbert Jones (1797-1861) and Dinah Jones. He lived with his parents and 9 siblings in Mile End and was a pupil of his father. In September 1859, he married Frances Rosalinda Downe, who was born in America. His son Arthur Bertram Loud (1863-1930) also became an artist. They lived at 12 Hayes Place, Lisson Grove from where he made his debut in London at the Royal Academy in 1861. He also exhibited at the British Institution, Suffolk Street, New Watercolour Society, Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours. By 1867, he had become a successful artist and they had moved to 7 Paragon Place, Brixton Hill. From 1874 he lived at Heathercroft, Balham Hill where he spent the rest of his life. Jones became well known for specialising in paintings of sheep, cattle and deer in landscape settings. He spent his time travelling around visiting areas such as Devon, Dorset, Kent, Sussex and the Highlands. However, it is for his skilful painting of sheep that he is perhaps best known, and for which earned him the nickname of ‘Sheep’ Jones...

Adolf Constantin Baumgartner-Stoiloff Austrian (1850-1924) The Escort Oil on canvas, signed & inscribed in pencil on stretcher Image size: 26.25 inches x 40.5 inches Size including frame: 32.25 inches x 46.5 inches Provenance: Omell Galleries, 43a Duke Street, London Adolf Constantin Baumgartner-Stoiloff was born Adolf Baumgartner in Linz, Austria on 10 March, 1850. Little is known about his early life although some sources suggest he was of Bulgarian extraction. He visited Russia during the 1880’s where he studied at the St Petersberg Academy of Fine Arts. He spent time travelling around Russia and Ukraine and began specialising in winter scenes featuring Cossacks on horseback. Many of his paintings depict Cossack military convoys moving at speed across a frozen landscape, as in these fine examples. He also produced animated scenes of horse sleighs...

Henry Garland British, (1834-1913) Driving the Cattle ‘Hame’ Oil on canvas, signed & further inscribed & dated 1895 verso Image size: 32.25 inches x 27.25 inches Size including fram...

**PLEASE NOTE: EACH PAINTING INCLUDING THE FRAME MEASURES 15.25 INCHES X 20.75 INCHES** John Frederick Herring Jnr British, (c1820-1907) Farmyard Scene with Horses, Poultry, Pigs & Cattle & Farmyard Scene with Horses, Poultry & a Goat Oil on canvas, pair, both signed Image size: 11.5 inches x 17 inches (each) Size including frame: 15.25 inches x 20.75 inches (each) Provenance: Richard Green Fine Paintings, London John Frederick Herring was born in Doncaster c1820 to the artist John Frederick Herring (1795-1865) and his wife Anna Catharina (nee Harris) and was baptised on 2 May, 1821. There is some confusion about the date of his birth due to an earlier birth record existing for 21 June, 1815. To complicate matters further, all of the census records indicate he was born in 1816. Some sources suggest this was an earlier child who died and that Herring was the child born in 1820. Herring’s brothers Charles Herring (1828-1856) and Benjamin Herring...

Alfred de Breanski Snr British, (1852-1928) Near the Fairy Glen Bettws-y-coed Oil on canvas, signed & transcribed verso Image size: 23.5 inches x 35.5 inches Size including frame: 31...

Colin Graeme Roe British, (1855-1910) Standing Proud Oil on canvas, signed Image size: 15.75 inches x 21.5 inches Size including frame: 26.5 inches x 32.25 inches Colin Graeme Roe was born in Dunoon, Argyll in Scotland on 25 December 1855 to the artist Robert Henry Roe...

The Mill Wheel by Thomas Henry Thomas (Welsh 1834-1915) signed lower right corner oil painting on canvas, framed framed size: 12 x 16 inches condit...

'Tempt me Not' by Frederick French (British flourished 1883-1916) signed with monogram lower left, signed and dated 1896 to the reverse, titled to frame plaque oil painting on canva...

Late 19th/early 20th century oil on canvas painting in the manner of Abraham Hulk the Younger (1851-1922), this painting was acquired by Saltire Gallerie with a larger painting signed by Hulk the Younger, (just SOLD). Presented in a period decorative gilt frame, the painting is of a cottage in a woodland with cattle by a pond, a little black dog and man and a woman standing by. In the distance is a glimpse of a river and grasses, framed by trees and an overcast sky. Hulk is renowned for his treatment of the changing season from summer to autumn, and the golden leaves and fading greens in this painting suggest this changing time of year. Hulk is the son of a well known Dutch maritime...

Artist/ School: Scottish School, early 1900's Title: The Highland Family Medium: oil on canvas, framed Framed: 24 x 36.5 inches Painting: 23 x 35 in...

An original oil on canvas painting measuring 22 x 12 inches by Frederick Hines, signed lower left. Frederick Hines was an English artist best known for his academic watercolor painti...

"The Tavern" by Georgina Lara (active 1862-1971) oil painting on canvas, framed painting: 9 x 13 inches framed: 13 x 17 inches Delightful Victorian oil painting by the very popular...