[Eton from the Thames]
[Watermeadows at Sonning]
1879/1877
both oil on canvas
Thursday, April 2, 2009
George Turner - The Hay Harvest
1880
oil on canvas
inscribed
"The grateful sweetness of the newmown hay/Breathing refreshment, fans the toiling/swain"
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
William Henry Midwood - Cottage Interior
oil on canvas
Three generations of happy rustics, as one critic put it. The cottagers are happy and remarkably clean. The Father can not only read but can afford a paper and yet lives in what seems like a hovel.
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