By Edgar Longstaffe
Located in Aartselaar, BE
Romantic 19th century painting "homewards" depicting a shepherdess returning home with her flock for the night by Edgar Longstaffe
Edgar Longstaffe (1852 – 7 December 1933) was a well-known English landscape painter of the Victorian era. Longstaffe was born near Derby in Derbyshire, England. The son of a doctor, he married and moved to Newport, Essex. During the 1880s he exhibited five times at the Royal Academy and at the Royal Hibernian Academy and at Birmingham. He was for some years on the staff of Messrs Raphael Tuck & Sons, being sent by them to all the principal beauty spots of the British Isles to obtain sketches in the earlier days of the art picture postcard. He was especially fond of portraying the scenery of the Scottish Highlands, often with cattle, and he excelled in the painting of water...
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19th Century Romantic Edgar Longstaffe Landscape Paintings