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Description: | This charming and sentimental painting shows a pretty boy playing a flute, sitting on a bench in the alcove outside a house. The boy's long hair, his velvet costume and wide brimmed hat with peacock feather, and his silver flute are based on the costumes of the time of King Charles I, and give this painting a historic feel. The old brick wall partly covered by ivy and the medieval glass windows in the background are in fact of the walls of Old Wilsley House, which members of the Cranbrook Colony rented from 1859. Full of historic and romantic associations, the house provided inspiration for the artists, and its stone walls and arched doors can be recognized in many of their paintings.
Signature: 'G.B. O'Neill 86'
Oil painting showing a young boy sat outside a house. He is playing a recorder to a bird that is in a cage hanging above him. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Fine arts Childhood Boys Oil painting Cottages Classical music Kent Pets Gardens Music Cranbrook Colony of Artists Benches Hats Houses Oil Paintings Children Victorian period Cages Old Wilsley House Windows instrumental music Paintings Plants Birds People Art collections | Temporal: | 1886
Victorian (1837-1901) | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | O'NEILL; George Bernard (1828 - 1917) | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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