Early 20th-Century Dutch School, Landscape With Birch Trees

Early 20th-Century Dutch School, Landscape With Birch TreesThis early 20th century oil painting by A Herbe depicts a river landscape under turbulent evening sky. Overhead, the dense passing clouds are punctuated by several limber birch trees. Following days of rain, the river bulges on this overcast day in the low countries. With its emphasis on mood and tone, the artist, A Herbe, was probably influenced by the Hague School. This group, which included painters such as Anton Mauve and Jacob Maris, sought to

A charming early Victorian English school portrait of a lady wearing a blue dress with gigot sleeves and a large bonnet decorated with flowers

living off their wits - like true romantic anti-heroes

Overall size: 24” x 28½” / 61cm x 72cm

Over the years following a bereavement

The painting is signed in the lower left and housed within an ornate gilded frame with repeating foliate

and “one of the finest books to emerge in early eighteenth-century British publishing”

JMW Turner (1775-1851) painted a similar vista

He painted various scenes within religious environments and this is a fine example of his abundant dexterity

informal and lyrical

this young gentleman is rendered with a confident touch

towers over the bridge

A late 19th-century oil on canvas depicting an old stone lock on a rural waterway in Holland