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Rare Decorative Wall Painting of Shepherd Boy
Ref: 2376
This is a large decorative pastoral painting on plaster that once was one of a pair of such paintings standing either side of a fireplace in a Georgian property in the village of Littlewick Green in Maidenhead in Berkshire.
The painting has been removed, cleaned and expertly framed.
Wall paintings were commonplace but are rare survivals as most were painted over. In the medieval times the subject matter was often religious and didactic. Classical revival re-introduced the idea of pleasure and relaxation into interior design schemes but in Western Europe in the Renaissance for the wealthiest a Flemish tapestry of a classical scene from Ovid had more cachet than a painted wall. As here for the well off but less grand domestic interior a wall painting with bucolic scene was as close as one could get to a tapestry but effectively and unbeknownst it takes us back to the painterly spirit of the villas of Pompeii.
The piece is not heavy and can be immediately wall hung.
English 18th cent.
H: 119cm (46.9in)
W: 112cm (44.1in)
D: 1.5cm (0.6in)
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