Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding, Mother & Child In A Landscape With Cattle

Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding, Mother & Child In A Landscape With CattleThis mid 19th century watercolour by British artist Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding (1787 1855) depicts a mother and child in a landscape with cattle. Copley Fielding was one of the leading watercolourists of his generation. Two silver birch trees reach across a dust covered track where a mother and child cast long shadows. Its Summer and lazy cattle amble towards the shade of a nearby wood. In the distance, the gently rolling hills culminate in a

The portrait is signed illegibly in the upper right and housed within a later frame

Julius Schoppe (1795-1868) is rendered with a majestic touch and masterly brushwork

her patrons often had military connections

Cooper’s tutor

Von Marr excelled at drawing and his portraits carry a sense of spirit

Ipswich (1989) / Private collection

Medium Oil on board

Man was a component

the undulant scenery extends for miles - across the silvery River Wharfe and out towards a haze of rolling peaks

His daughter

As a measure of his success

idealised notions of nature - achieved only via careful study of a doctrine laid down by sophisticated tutors