Maximilien Mayeur, Figures By A Track In A Wooded Landscape

Maximilien Mayeur, Figures By A Track In A Wooded LandscapeThis beautiful late 19th century oil painting by French artist Maximilien Mayeur (1840 1889) depicts a family resting adjacent to a country track within a verdant forest. Mayeur was an adept, Salon exhibited, painter and etcher of landscapes. Four figures rest under a leafy canopy, with the youngest, a girl dressed in pale blue, looking towards the eldest perhaps her grandfather. Here, amid the luscious foliage, sunlight amplifies the picturesque

Distant buildings are rendered with a few deft marks and careful observation

Danish artists sought to abandon the overblown romantic emphasis of the previous decades in favour of highlighting the realities of those who lived in rural settings

a terrier owned by E

Daughters were expected to follow suit

Dagron was born in Fontainebleau

Zorn is considered to be one of Sweden’s greatest artists and

you can see several sturdy hand-wrought nails

This mid-19th-century oil painting attributed to Scottish artist William Clark of Greenock (1803-1883) depicts a fully-rigged British frigate sailing off Yarmouth and The Needles

This 19th-century oil painting by British artist George Balmer (1805-1846) depicts a coastal scene with beached ship

His sensuous posters featuring attractive females are now iconic

by German artist

Henry Charles Clifford (1861-1947)