William Sidney Cooper

Landscape oil painting of sheep in a Kent meadow

1902

Charles Jones British, (1836-1892) Sheep Grazing on a Cliff Top Oil on canvas, signed with monogram Image size: 7.5 inches x 11.5 inches Size including frame: 13.5 inches x 17.5 inches A lovely landscape painting of sheep on a coastal cliff by Charles ‘Sheep’ Jones. The sheep and her two lambs are depicted against the backdrop of the sea with shipping and chalk cliffs in the distance. The location is likely to be the Devon coast, an area Jones visited often. 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 had moved to 7 Paragon Place, Brixton Hill. From 1874, he lived at Heathercroft, Balham Hill where he spent the rest of his life. As well as the major London galleries, he also exhibited provincially at various locations including: the Royal Cambrian Academy where he was elected a member in 1886, the Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, Manchester City Art Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy, Royal Society of British Artists, Birmingham and the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Some of the smaller more intimate galleries he exhibited at were Arthur Tooth & Sons and Thomas Richardson...

Louis Bosworth Hurt British, (1856-1929) Crossing the Moorland Oil on canvas, signed & inscribed with title in pencil on the stretcher Image size: 23.5 inches x 39.25 inches Size in...

Henry H Parker British, (1858-1930) Homeward Bound Oil on canvas, signed & indistinctly inscribed in pencil to stretcher Image size: 11.25 inches x 17.25...

Arthur Walker Redgate British, (1860-1906) A Wayside Chat Oil on canvas, signed Image size: 13.5 inches x 20.5 inches Size including frame: 19.5...

The Highland Loch (Loch Lubnaig, the Trossachs) by Prudence Turner, British b. 1930, signed. oil painting on canvas, framed. framed: 28 x 40 inches canva...

Dark red-toned realist portrait of a Victorian Lady. The painting depicts a middle-aged lady seated against a dark red curtain for a portrait. She wears a pink Victorian off-shoulder...

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...

Antique Victorian English 19th Century, King Charles Cavalier spaniel and Westie terrier in an interior. This exquisite English 19th-century painting by...