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Paintings » Naive Painting of Tanhouse Farm by A.S.
Ref: 1304
A vivid naive oil on canvas with lots of interesting local details. The farmer smoking his clay pipe on his doorstep, the wife in her broad brimmed summer hat feeding the chickens and turkey cock, the fine old farmhouse perhaps originally a medieval tannery with its early bay window, its long undulating red tiled roof and distempered walls. The farmer has been tending his cottage garden, there are geraniums or something like them decorating the window sills, two firkins appear to be attached to a drain to catch rainwater and a large roller and shallow oak barrel are propped neatly by the path ready for use. This is another genre of folk painting, sometimes like here with real detail and social history, the house portrait. There are many Tanhouse Farms in the country one imagines, this one may have been in the Midlands, as the painting came locally, and one′s hunch is that it has never travelled far.
It has a good quality rosewood frame in its original red stain and it has probably been in this frame and behind glass since it was painted as once removed, as here, the colour appears particularly fresh.The dimensions include the frame which is in the price.
English Midlands c.1880
H: 35cm (13.8in)
W: 45cm (17.7in)
D: 2cm (0.8in)
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