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Description: | Oil on canvas. This depiction of a lush, green rural landscape was painted as one of a pair (with GAC 3800) by George Barret senior. Barret is considered one of the best landscape painters of his day. The detailed and accurate representation of vegetation and rocks in the foreground of the painting is a characteristic feature of his work.
The works can be seen as a response to the growing popularity of picturesque scenes of rural life (sentimental genre scenes). Although Barret was a skilled figure and animal painter, the figures and dog in the paintings may have been added by another artist. Barret is known to have collaborated with animal painter Sawrey Gilpin, who painted figures on horseback within some of his compositions. | Subjects: | genre child tree landscape C18th house fishing rod fisherman evening boy | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | George Barret Snr | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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