This charming 19th-century landscape by Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding (1787-1855) depicts a British rural idyll. It’s carefully observed and rendered by an artist with a deep admiration for the natural world.

Late Summer sun radiates behind a dense copse while a mother and child rest in a nearby field. The foliage a mixture of sun-blushed tones, while the sky brings a spacious relief. It’s a composition of contrasting quarters - the bottom right dense, the top left, airy and light.

Fielding probably sketched this view while enjoying the surroundings. He was an ever-popular Victorian painter who worked throughout the British Isles.

The reverse bears an old Christie’s stencil.

Inscribed on the reverse and dated.

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Medium: Oil on panel
Overall size: 13” x 10” / 34cm x 26cm
Year of creation: c. 1830
Condition: Artwork presents well. Frame with some light wear.
Artist’s auction highlight: £21,000 achieved for a watercolour in 2003.