Joshua Anderson Hague, Landscape With Watermill & Bridge

Joshua Anderson Hague, Landscape With Watermill & BridgeThis absorbing view of a mill by British artist Joshua Anderson Hague (1850 1916), a contributor to the Manchester School of Painters, captures the energy of cascading water with an array of impressionistic marks. Through a clever composition, the whole scene ebbs and flows from top to bottom, zigzagging its way from the clouds to the rocks by our feet. Hes describing a working landscape, the active mill fed by its environment. You can almost hear the

It depicts three figures walking along a rough mountain track in the shadow of dramatic rocky scenery

she also undertook several study trips to Europe including to France and Italy

A worn mid-18th-century oil on canvas depicting an arrangement of fruit including cherries and grapes

many of their works are quietly sensitive and honest to nature

576 achieved for a portrait at auction in 2018

We love the energy in this piece with its expressive brushwork and lively palette

which begins with the apex on the left and concludes with the tree on the right

At the time

It’s a celebration of nature

while the foreground rests in the shade

1860Provenance: EnglandCondition: Craquelure and a few paint losses including around the periphery due to its previous frame

A beautifully calm impressionistic landscape painting by French painter