This charming early 19th-century painting by British artist Edwin Moseley Fox depicts a chestnut mare and a grey mare in a landscape. They’re entwined like old friends as they rest in the shade of a gnarled oak tree.

Fox probably produced this work for a commission and it once hung in a fine period home in Regency Cheltenham.

The painting is signed/dated and housed within a beautiful foliate frame.

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Medium: Oil on panel
Overall size: 19” x 16½” / 48cm x 42cm
Year of creation: c. 1850
Condition: Overall very presentable. Minor dent. Frame with some age-related wear.
Artist’s auction highlight: £4,830 achieved for an oil painting in 1996.