English School Wooded Landscape With Cottages

English School Wooded Landscape With CottagesA charming 19th century oil on canvas depicting a gentleman fishing before a crop of cottages. Its easy to imagine yourself whiling away the hours within this peaceful English countryside scene. Housed in a good later frame with a distressed look. Medium Oil on canvas Size including frame 21 x 17 53cm x 43cm Year of creation c. 1850 Provenance England Condition Good restored condition with craquelure throughout and darkening caused by years in dusty

Size including frame 16¾” x 13⅔” / 41cm x 35cm

Frame with age-related wear including losses to the gilding

An unusual set of three Swedish folk art paintings dating to 1909

20” x 24” / 51cm x 61cm

He then continued on to Russia where he created a silhouette of Rasputin that brought him much acclaim

One area that’s bituminised in the top right

Did she ask for a portrait or did he send it to her as a surprise

13” x 15” / 33cm x 38cm Year of creation

They say that from the roots it measures 36 pouces (inches) high and with all the feathers and ribbons that hold all of that up

A small early 19th-century oil on canvas depicting Christ carrying the cross as he trudges towards Calvary

Allegre studied at the School of Fine Arts in Marseille and often painted light-filled views along the French Riviera

We shall never know…