William Charles Estall, Landscape With River, Cattle, Windmill & Storm Clouds

William Charles Estall, Landscape With River, Cattle, Windmill & Storm CloudsThis late 19th century oil painting by British artist William Charles Estall (1857 1897) depicts a view with a river, cattle, windmill and storm clouds. Estall was an accomplished landscape painter in oils, pastels, and watercolours. During the 1870s, when Estall undertook his training at Manchester School of Art, landscape painting in England was predominantly tied to a house style based around the tenets of naturalism. As such, the foremost artists,

9½” x 11¾” / 24cm x 30cm

1930Provenance: GermanyCondition: Very presentable

protrude like the veins of mid-winter

500 achieved for an oil painting in 2004

A hint of smoke rises from a cottage chimney

It depicts a lady wearing a black dress atop a delicately embroidered white blouse

the aristocracy favoured art which elevated the natural world while referencing antiquity

we see her wearing a dress with ‘gigot’ or ‘leg-o-mutton’ sleeves and a bonnet

Any upper-class young male worth one’s salt would undertake a Grand Tour to experience the antiquities and ruined delights of European destinations

Medium: Etching on paperOverall size: 13½” x 15½” / 34cm x 40cmYear of creation: c

such as Théodore Rousseau (1812-1867)

and the jagged skyline