Alfred Henry Vickers, Coastal View With Church & Cattle

Alfred Henry Vickers, Coastal View With Church & CattleThis brisk landscape study by British artist Alfred Henry Vickers (1834 1919) depicts a church nestled into rugged coastal scenery. Its beauty arises from its immediacy and its probably painted directly from nature. Imagine the breeze arising from the sea coupled with the gentle rhythm of cattle passing before you. Its a spot to idle away the hours on a joyous Summers day exactly as Vickers did in the 19th century. Signed in the lower right and

It’s always exciting when you have the name of a sitter depicted in a portrait as it enables you to delve into the ancestry records in search of information

His hair is left long and he sports a good set of sideburns

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 29” x 32½” / 74cm x 83cmYear of creation: c

One repair to the canvas

black bowtie

Pierre Bokkelandt

Size including frame 18½” x 21” / 47cm x 54cm

He was raised on his father’s farm and enjoyed painting nature and scenes from rural life

A fun little French scene depicting a lady getting ready for an evening out

1792 1803’ in the lower right

Another violent outburst later in life saw her chase a lady with a whip following an unfavourable biography

such as Cézanne and Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) had left an indelible mark