Jo Strahn, Rural Scene With Farmers & Cattle

Jo Strahn, Rural Scene With Farmers & CattleA charming mid century scene depicting three farmers, a horse and cart with hay, a flock of sheep, and two goats. The artist, Peter Josef Strahn (1904 1997) enjoyed capturing these everyday rural moments and this is typical of his style. Theres a real joy in this painting and you can see how much Strahn treasured working outdoors. He was known to be a quiet man an "artist of silence" and his work reflected his persona. Strahn trained at the Dsseldorf

This fine early 18th-century French oil painting depicts a lady wearing a sumptuous pink gown

Signed in the lower right

534 achieved in Stockholm for ‘Odalisk i röd interiör’

embroidered silk cuffs with lace flounces

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Foss trained under the great P

A fine mid-19th-century portrait of Mary Anne Boyce nee Jacob by English painter

The frame is newer and a little wobbly in places

it bears an old auction label from Symons & Son of Barnstaple and it’s intriguing to think that the pub could’ve been in North Devon

which included a reline and a clean

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