This beautiful late-19th-century oil painting by German artist Heinrich Hiller (1846-1912) depicts a view with a shepherd, sheep, wayside shrine and distant buildings. Hiller was an accomplished painter of landscapes and maritime subjects.Wrapped in a golden glow, he drives his flock along a well-traversed rural track. The sky beyond shifting through bewitching gradients. A wayside shrine stands poignantly alongside - the grandeur of the natural world at its most evocative hour. In the distance, several cliff-top buildings, and beyond them, a river.Hiller was a romantic, captivated by the irrepressible effects of nature. He travelled extensively in search of the sublime, often working in the Alpine region of Tyrol, Rhineland, Switzerland, Bavaria and Italy. His compositions celebrate the scenery he encountered at a time of ever-increasing industrialisation. Rather than embrace modernity, he found joy in the slower pace of rural life and the permanency of God’s enduring creation...