Walter Waller Caffyn, Cattle In A Wooded Stream

Walter Waller Caffyn, Cattle In A Wooded StreamThis late 19th century oil painting by British artist Walter Waller Caffyn (1845 1897) depicts cattle by a stream near a wood. Caffyn was a Royal Academy exhibited painter of naturalistic landscapes. Illuminated by the radiant glow of summer, verdant foliage is rendered with an array of dappled tones. On the left, two cows pause by a restful stream, their patchwork forms reflecting in the water. While on the right, the complexity of a muddy bank is

The painting is housed within a beautiful foliate frame with pierced centres and corners

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She’s wearing a sumptuous black and red dress with gigot sleeves and holding a pair of brown silk gloves in her right hand

The gentlemen sport a variety of hats

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Medium: Oil on canvas laid on boardOverall size: 22” x 24½” / 56cm x 62cmYear of creation: c

Craquelure but the paint has been stabilised

doting grandfathers look lovingly towards their kin

puffed up in impasto

operated at their Darnall works until the 1930s

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 44” x 36” / 112cm x 92cmYear of creation: c

1910Provenance: GermanyCondition: A few light marks but otherwise fine