William Bright Morris, Flower Gathering With Coastal View

William Bright Morris, Flower Gathering With Coastal ViewThis charming landscape painting by British artist, William Bright Morris (1844 1912), depicts a woman gathering flowers by a rustic coastal cottage. Its an idyllic scene set against a dramatic sky in purple hues. On the right, the eye is drawn towards two windswept trees that stand with a perpetual lean, battered by coastal gales. While on the left, the shoreline extends towards a distant vanishing point, past a breaker that juts into the sea. The

we see several cottages and perhaps an oast house or circular barn

Fine craquelure but the paint is stable

A light-filled impressionistic view of Skäldervike in Sweden by Norwegian artist

art and clothing

Johan Pankraz Koeber (1796-1832)

The painting is signed in the lower right and inscribed on the reverse

she’s gently holding a necklace with perhaps a cameo or locket attached to it

Overall size: 31½” x 38” / 80cm x 96cm

It’s after the original by 19th-century folk artist

It’s believed that the pair had 15 children in total

He leans back - with a stiff upper lip - seemingly unfazed by the predicament they face

the Antwerp Salon and the Salon de la Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris