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Thomas Sydney Cooper RA
(1803-1902)
Cattle in Winter
Watercolour
66 x 102 cm
signed and dated
1886
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Here is what Kenneth Westwood (author, catalogue of Cooper's work) has to say about the above work.
"Reflecting the trend of many of his late oil paintings, Cooper executed few very large drawings of this calibre. The landscape detail, with a low horizon characteristic of so many works.. attention focused on the highly detailed drawing of the group of cattle..."
" In 1884-6 and again in 1891 Cooper painted large snow covered winter landscapes in watercolours, all approximately 26 x 40 inches. . Typical of all these is the present watercolour, with a herd of cattle on a bleak winter's day, some sheltering in a thatched barn heavy with snow. To the left are mature oak trees, the foremost with a lightning blasted top- a popular compositional feature in many of Cooper's works, in preference to depicting a full canopy of leaves in the upper branches, allowing a colour contrast to be introduced in the exposed hollowed trunk."
Literature:
To be included in the forthcoming catalogue of the artist's work by Kenneth Westwood
as (Westwood Cat D 1886.1)
Provenance:
with T Bromley & son Blackburn
Christies London 26 March 1920 (125 gns to Bowden)
Christies London 10 December 1923 Lot 41 ( 98 gns to sampson)
With W W Sampson, The British Galleries London
Peter Brooks, Sherborne by 1988
August Osborne
Lamplough
(British 1877-1930)
'Nile Afterglow'
Watercolour, 21 x 59 cm
Signed & titled
Price Guide: SOLD |
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