SHEEP AND LAMBS RESTING IN A HIGHLAND LANDSCAPE
ROBERT WATSON (1856 -1921), DATED 1876 AND 1878
A group of three ewes, a ram and two lambs in a highland landscape.
Oil on canvas, signed R. Watson bottom right corner.
Robert Watson (fl. 1874 -1920) was born in Brighton into a family of highland landscape artists. He settled in Ormskirk, Lancashire upon marriage. A succesful artist who benefited from the late 19th century vogue for Scottish highland paintings, he exhibited in Liverpool and Glasgow and acquired a reputation as an accomplished animal landscape painter of sheep and highland cattle.
Similar works by his hand depicting sheep in a highland landscape are held at the Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, Birkenhead (1878 and 1894), at Burnley Town Hall (1894), Gallery Oldham, at Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries (1903), at Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston (1909) and at Townley Hall Art Gallery and Museum.
Condition: Professionally cleaned, restored and revarnished.
Framed in a 19th century gilded wood and composition frame with giltwood slip, possibly the orginal.
English School, completed 1878
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