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English School Cottage and Horseman Scene C1800
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English School Cottage and Horseman Scene C1800

19th century
Description

An early 19th C oil on canvass, typical rural pastoral scene with a woman greeting an man on horse at the door of the cottage and children playing in the stream. The picture is nicely painted and composed the light well used to draw the eye through the picture to the doorway.

Image size 12x16 inches Frame size 24 x 19.75 inches

Over all good condition given both the age and medium, there is a very old repair where the child is, it does not affect the image. For accuracy the paint has had a good deal of bitumen and so some unevenness to the surface in the darker area. Again it does not detract from the image.

Date of Manufacture

Timberhill Gallery has dated this Antique English Landscape Painting to the 1800s.

Independent Date Guide ID 02862245
Dealer's Item Date1800s
Sellingantiques Date1800s
Sellingantiques agingItem 175-230 years old
ResultsDates match
Why Sellingantiques dated this piece to THE 1800s:
Bitumen wrinkling and traction craquelure in dark pigments: early nineteenth-century painter's medium.
Fine web of age craquelure across the pale sky and cottage wall.
Mellowed varnish with natural darkening across the deep background glazes.
Gilded composition frame with classical leaf moulding: early nineteenth-century pattern.

This Independent Date Guide was compiled by Sellingantiques using its own proprietary system. It works only from the photographs shown on this page and is never told the date the dealer has declared. It is a guide, not a guarantee of age, and occasional errors can occur.

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SA266035
Description
An early 19th C oil on canvass, typical rural pastoral scene with a woman greeting an man on horse at the door of the cottage and children playing in the stream.
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The picture is nicely painted and composed the light well used to draw the eye through the picture to the doorway.
Timberhill Gallery
fig 1. An antique oil painting depicting a thatched cottage landscape with figures, housed within a heavy gilt wood frame.
fig 1. English School Cottage and Horseman Scene C1800

Image size 12x16 inches Frame size 24 x 19.75 inches

Over all good condition given both the age and medium, there is a very old repair where the child is, it does not affect the image. For accuracy the paint has had a good deal of bitumen and so some unevenness to the surface in the darker area. Again it does not detract from the image.

Date of Manufacture

Timberhill Gallery has dated this Antique English Landscape Painting to the 1800s.

Independent Date Report ID 02862245
Dealer's Item Date1800s
Sellingantiques dating1800s
Sellingantiques agingItem 175-230 years old
ResultsDates match
Why Sellingantiques dated this piece to the 1800s:
Bitumen wrinkling and traction craquelure in dark pigments: early nineteenth-century painter's medium.
Fine web of age craquelure across the pale sky and cottage wall.
Mellowed varnish with natural darkening across the deep background glazes.
Gilded composition frame with classical leaf moulding: early nineteenth-century pattern.

This is an independent date report produced by Sellingantiques using its own proprietary system. The process uses the photographs shown on this page. The system is never told the date the dealer has declared. This report shows that the two dates corroborate.

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SA266035
Timberhill Gallery
Timberhill Gallery
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Archive I An antique oil painting depicting a thatched cottage landscape with figures, housed within a heavy gilt wood frame.

English School Cottage and Horseman Scene C1800

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An antique oil painting depicting a thatched cottage landscape with figures, housed within a heavy gilt wood frame.
English School Cottage and Horseman Scene C1800
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An antique oil painting depicting a thatched cottage landscape with figures, housed within a heavy gilt wood frame.
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  • ObjectOil Painting
  • Period19th century
  • StyleGeorgian
  • MaterialOil paint, Canvas, Gilded Wood
  • ColourGold and Dark Brown
  • MotifsGilt frame moulding, Thatched cottage, Pastoral landscape, Egg-and-dart carving

This Georgian oil painting depicts a rural pastoral scene on canvas, showing a thatched cottage with a horseman at the door, children near a stream, and dark brown tones throughout. The artwork is enclosed within a heavy gilded wood frame featuring egg-and-dart carving, decorative moulding along the inner borders, and an ornate stepped wooden profile. Visible signs of age include unevenness in the dark areas from bitumen paint and a very old repair near the child figure. The frame measures 61 cm by 50 cm, with an image size of 30 cm by 41 cm. This piece suits placement above the mantel in a traditional living room or study.

FAQs

The English School during this era focused on naturalistic depictions of rural countryside, traditional cottage architecture, and pastoral life, heavily influenced by Dutch Golden Age painters and early Romanticism.

Paintings from this period were typically executed in oil paints on woven linen canvas or timber panels, housed within hand-carved wood frames finished with water or oil gilding.

Authentic pieces generally exhibit natural age craquelure across the paint surface, historical varnish discolouration, period-correct canvas stretchers or wood joinery, and genuine oxidisation on the gilded frame.

Hang the artwork above a mantelpiece, sideboard, or within a gallery wall setting to introduce rich historical texture and warm tones into modern or traditional room schemes.

Keep the piece away from direct sunlight, radiators, and high humidity, dusting the frame softly with a dry badger-hair brush and avoiding liquid cleaning agents on the paint surface.
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