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Walter Frederick Osborne, R.H.A. 1859-1903
Estimate
12,000 - 16,000 GBP
bidding is closed
Description
- Walter Frederick Osborne, R.H.A.
- landscape with cows
- oil on board
- 14 by 23.5cm.; 5½ by 9¼in.
Catalogue Note
The fluid handling and thick impasto of the present work strongly suggest that it was executed directly en plein air most probably during the late 1880s. It is highly reminiscent to Near Didcot (1886-87, Private Collection) and A Boy in a Turnip Field (1888, Private Collection) both also executed on similarly sized panels that the artist would have easily transported around with him.
Unlike his contemporaries such as Edward Stott who later settled in Amberley, Sussex and the Newlyn School artists who chose much of their subject matter specifically around that area, Osborne did not restrict himself to particular places, prefering rather to be inspired by the landscape as he chanced upon it. He explained in a letter home, 'I have an eye on one or two splendid subjects here for pictures and will return, I think' (Osborne, circa 1884-85 quoted in Jeanne Sheehy, Walter Osborne, exh.cat., The National Gallery of Ireland, 1983, p.65).
Unlike his contemporaries such as Edward Stott who later settled in Amberley, Sussex and the Newlyn School artists who chose much of their subject matter specifically around that area, Osborne did not restrict himself to particular places, prefering rather to be inspired by the landscape as he chanced upon it. He explained in a letter home, 'I have an eye on one or two splendid subjects here for pictures and will return, I think' (Osborne, circa 1884-85 quoted in Jeanne Sheehy, Walter Osborne, exh.cat., The National Gallery of Ireland, 1983, p.65).