Lily Bristow, Autumnal Landscape With Pond

Lily Bristow, Autumnal Landscape With PondThis beautiful late 19th century watercolour by British artist Lily Bristow (1864 1935) depicts a picturesque autumnal view. The crunch of Autumn peppers a winding track as windswept trees lean, partially bereft. Golden tones and tinted foliage enlivened with a brilliant sky. The light, bright enough to squint, radiating into a distant haze. Bristow was a remarkable woman. Determined, fearless and pioneering. Not only did she forge a noteworthy

We love the colours in her dress and the way she rests her feet on the table

Fox probably produced this work for a commission and it once hung in a fine period home in Regency Cheltenham

peppered with grazing sheep and distant sailboats

1640-1708)

Also exhibited regularly in Dundee where he gained a solid reputation

Overall size: 31” x 23½” / 79cm x 59cm

a lamb suckles its mother alongside a felled tree

During the late 18th and early 19th century

It seems that travelling helped to ease his heart and he found particular solace in the spirit and warmth of Spain

A sensitive depiction of two women talking within a country house interior

he began touring the US

by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-73)