By Charles Hunt Jr.
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Charles Hunt Jnr
British, (1829-1900)
A Visitor Calls
Oil on canvas, signed
Image size: 24.75 inches x 34.75 inches
Size including frame: 32.25 inches x 42.25 inches
A wonderful genre painting by Charles Hunt of two men and two boys with horses and other animals in a cottage. A farmer and his two sons can be seen eating lunch at a table in rustic interior as a visitor approaches. Perhaps encouraged by the boys, a piglet seems to have found its way onto the table whilst a rabbit and guinea pig eat cabbage leaves on the floor. To the far right, a horse is shown in a stable area along with some piglets. To the far left, a terrier waits on the step by its master.
Charles Hunt was a genre and figure painter born in Kensington, London in 1829. His sons Reuben Hunt...
Category
19th Century Victorian George Goodwin Kilburne Paintings