Richard Hilder, Landscape With Figures & Stream

Richard Hilder, Landscape With Figures & StreamThis charming mid 19th century oil painting by British artist Richard Hilder (1813 1852) depicts a landscape with two figures, a stream and a copse. Two figures, possibly a mother and daughter, stand by an ambling stream with a view of open pasture beyond. In the foreground, a rickety fence spans the waterway, probably to deter cattle from wandering along it and thus getting stuck where it narrows. Its a picturesque scene rendered with consummate

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This charming early 18th-century three-quarter length portrait depicts a lady wearing a decolleté blue velvet dress with a slit in the bodice

Many of his witty observational pieces were later engraved and published as ‘Barney Bryan’s Sketchbooks’

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the figures are rendered skilfully and with careful attention to the costumes

whose ‘Entrance to a Forest’ (c

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which gently illuminates several objects

This splendid late-18th-century oil painting by German artist Andreas Range (1762-1835) depicts a seated architect with dividers

references Cymbeline

He also visited New Zealand

By the 1710s