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British 19th century Mediterranean landscape painting of a Hay Harvest Monet

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Fine 19th century British romantic painting depicting hay "meules" in the countryside along the Mediterranean This peaceful painting depicts a hay harvest in the mediterranean on a warm summer day, the sunlight vibrantly illuminates the beautiful colors of the beautiful and peaceful landscape. This work wonderfully captures the spirit of an adventurous artist who travelled through Europe to the East, capturing the beautiful nature and landscape that he encountered along his journey. The depiction of a hay harvest was also a very popular theme with later impressionist artists, some of the most notable examples are: the Haystacks-series by Claude Monet, Haystacks in Provence by Vincent Van Gogh and the many Harvest-paintings by Camille Pissarro. Tristram James Ellis (2 July 1844 – 25 July 1922) was an English artist who was most notably known for his paintings of the Middle East and eastern Mediterranean. Ellis was the son of the mathematician and philologist Alexander John Ellis. He and his twin sister, Miriam Anne, were born at Great Malvern on 2 July 1844. He was known to his family as Tristie and spent his early years in Bath, Clifton and Edinburgh, after which he was sent to school at Queenwood College in Hampshire. At school, he excelled in mathematics, and while he did study drawing, he disliked the emphasis placed on copying rather than original art. In 1862, Ellis went to King's College, London, where during his second year he earned the highest distinction in the Applied Sciences department in the college's history. He won all the scholarships offered by the college and was awarded the Associateship of King's College after only two years' study, in recognition of his exceptional achievements. After university, Ellis completed a pupilage under the railway engineer Sir John Fowler and became a partner in a firm of engineers. After several years, Ellis decided that his calling lay in art. As he had sufficient means to support himself, he abandoned engineering and devoted his time to oil painting. Several of Ellis's early oil paintings were shown at the Royal Academy. Despite this, he felt his technique needed improvement and moved to Paris to become a student of Léon Bonnat, practicing 12 hours a day. Ellis was one of 170 students from 43 countries in Bonnat's studio at the time, but seems to have developed a friendship with his teacher, who advised him to focus on history painting. Ellis, however, was too interested in the outdoors to accept Bonnat's suggestion. After his studies in Paris, Ellis began to travel to sketch foreign scenes. In 1878, he spent six months in Cyprus, then under British occupation, where he contracted a fever. Despite this he returned with 50–60 watercolor sketches that were all sold to a dealer after their exhibition in Bond Street in April 1879. This success encouraged him to plan a more ambitious trip, and so on 1 October 1879 he boarded a steamship for Alexandria with the aim of visiting Syria, Asia Minor and Mesopotamia. Ellis succeeded in traveling from the Syrian coast, overland to Diyarbakır in southeast Turkey and then by raft down the Tigris to Mosul and Baghdad in Iraq. From Baghdad, Ellis traveled overland to Palmyra and Damascus in Syria and then to Beirut, Lebanon. After his return, he showed about 90 sketches from his travels, and sold them immediately.[9] Ellis also wrote a two-volume illustrated account of his trip, "On a Raft, and Through the Desert", which was published in 1881. Ellis's next trip was to Egypt in the spring of 1882. He spent three weeks at the Pyramids, where he stayed with the Egyptologist Flinders Petrie, and left the country in May, just before the massacre at Alexandria on 11 June 1882 that precipitated the Anglo-Egyptian War. Several years later, Ellis made another trip to the eastern Mediterranean, where he spent time in Athens, and had three sketches selected by George I of Greece. After this, Ellis made three visits to the Arctic, including to Spitzbergen, and also returned to the Mediterranean. In 1896, Ellis was married and living comfortably in London. The canvas without the frame measures ca 23 by 40 cms and ca 43 by 60 cms with. Likely late 19th/ early 20th century

Attributed to:
Tristram James Ellis (1844 - 1922, British)
Dimensions:
Height: 9.06 in (23 cm)Width: 15.75 in (40 cm)
Medium:
Canvas,Oil
Movement & Style:
Impressionist
Period:
19th Century
Condition:
Lovely and ready to hang. Light age-related wear to the frame as visible on the photographs.
Gallery Location:
Aartselaar, BE
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1423211220412

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