Allen G Folliott-Stokes, Sunday Evening, Cornwall

Allen G Folliott-Stokes, Sunday Evening, CornwallThis late 19th century oil painting by British artist Allen G Folliott Stokes (1855 1939) depicts an evening view with a parish church and various coastal buildings. Folliott Stokes was a free spirited painter, poet and author known for impressionistic landscapes and enthusiastic Cornish travel guides. He was a contributor to the late 19th century St Ives School. Red brick facades of Cornish dwellings are subdued by the weary haze of a falling sun.

Corbet became immersed in this pioneering approach and spent a great deal of time in Rome

But this is likely to relate to its restoration during the 19th-century

Having trained in France for a while

and it’s believed that he undertook work for the English court

A peaceful early 20th-century oil painting depicting a fisherman on a picturesque tree-lined lake

His older brother

but it has considerable suavity

yet her eyes are in the shadows

1992 (lot 187)

which capture a moment in time

and inscribed illegibly on the reverse

Held within a handsome 19th-century scroll and foliate frame