James Herbert Snell, View Of Radcot, Oxfordshire

James Herbert Snell, View Of Radcot, OxfordshireAn attractive impressionistic landscape painting by English artist, James Herbert Snell (1861 1935). With daubs of oils and skilfully rendered brushwork, Snell has captured this scene beautifully. Snell was an interesting painter as his works span a transitionary period for British art. Around 1880, French impressionism was in full swing and gaining the attention of many British artists. As a young man, he wouldve surely been influenced by the

This ultimately led to him pursuing a career as a painter and studying in Munich under Peter von Cornelius and Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld

Oil on wood

Painters such Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564-1638) would fill their scenes with an abundance of characters - each with their own story

Little is known of Pierre Reynaud but it’s clear that he was underrated given the standard of this piece

The painting was created on paper and it seems that it’s been saved at some point by attaching it to board

many of his paintings draw on both schools

Katarina Fontaine (1897-1970)

A detailed interior scene with a hand-painted trunk

Sterpin has created an atmospheric depiction of a bedroom that's reminiscent of a Van Gogh painting

a scratch is visible to the right of the gentleman’s beard

yet also embedded into a deep British tradition for realism

Some scuffing around the edges due to framing