A fine and large oil painting on canvas depicting a young traveller at rest by the roadside. The canvas shows full length a girl in rural costume sitting by the road with basket in hand looking lost in her thoughts. The painting is beautifully done and is the best of this Victorian genre work. The painting has been lined and cleaned some time ago but there appears to be no great areas of restoration and the whole is in excellent condition. The frame is most likely the original but it has been restored some time ago and regilded and coloured. The painting is signed to the lower right ‘T K Pelham’. Thomas Kent Pelham was a highly successful London painter in the high Victorian style and exhibited between 1860-1891 but little is known about his life. Pelham exhibited at the Royal Academy for most of his career with titles such as ‘A Cornish Mussel-gatherer’ and ‘A Serious Question’ and also exhibited at every other major gallery of the time. His work is held in museums such as Cardiff and...