Antique English Watercolor Landscape with Cattle Drover, Charlotte Somerville After Copley Fielding (1787-1855)
Antique English Watercolor Landscape with Cattle Drover, Charlotte Somerville After Copley Fielding (1787-1855)
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A drover in a dark hat walks two cattle along a lakeside track, with birches on the left and hazy mountains behind. The Oxford framer’s label on the reverse is inscribed in ink naming the Hon.ble Charlotte Somerville and calling the picture a copy of Copley Fielding, so it is listed as after Fielding, with no claim about who painted it. Unsigned, which is usual for copies of this kind.
The paper has toned overall and carries several small round water marks in the sky, mostly toward the upper right and centre. There is light mottling across the foreground, with a scatter of small reddish-brown spots at lower right. The paper is laid down. The painted surface is stable and the color is sound.
The brown paper backing is torn along the top and both sides, exposing the timber backing board and brads beneath. The torn edges are held down with paper tape. The backing is intact along the bottom, where the label sits, and carries scattered staining spots. The Hills & Saunders label is complete, with an adhesive stain across its centre. In my assessment the frame, glass, and backing are original to the work.
The gilt frame has hairline cracks in the raised ornament, including a mitre crack at the top right corner where small losses show white gesso. There are small chips along the beaded outer edge and a small loss to the inner moulding along the bottom. The gilt slip is worn along its lower edge, where the red-brown ground shows through, and there is a faint pencil mark on the slip at upper left.
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