Edward John Cobbett RBA (Attributed), Portrait Of A Girl In A Landscape

Edward John Cobbett RBA (Attributed), Portrait Of A Girl In A LandscapeThis charming mid 19th century oil painting attributed to English artist Edward John Cobbett (1815 1899) depicts a seated girl carrying a wicker basket within rolling scenery. Cobbett was a skilled English painter of landscapes and genre who exhibited regularly at Londons Royal Academy. This piece from around 1860 is emblematic of his rose tinted escapism and celebrates the honest endeavours of rural life. The details are rendered skilfully,

Possess yourself with their spirit

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 50½” x 40½” / 129cm x 103cmYear of creation: c

A quaint lighthouse quietly guides a passing sailboat safely around an outcrop - as it has done for decades

In the early 1970s

Bettina von Arnim was close friends with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Berggren was a talented painter that trained at the Academy in Stockholm and the Académie Colarossi in Paris

Oluf Høst (1884-1966)

engaging in numerous bloody battles - many of these with the French

300km to get here from his home in Stockholm

This beautiful work is indicative of his natural talent and it captures the spirit of this splendid young lady

Held within a 19th-century gilt frame

who is flanked on either side by the initials IC and XC