Edward Charles Williams (Attributed), Wooded River Landscape With Cottage, Fishermen, Mother & Child

Edward Charles Williams (Attributed), Wooded River Landscape With Cottage, Fishermen, Mother & ChildThis mid 19th century oil painting attributed to English artist Edward Charles Williams (1807 1881) depicts a wooded river landscape with a thatched cottage, fishermen, mother, child and dog. Williams was an accomplished landscape painter and a member of the Barnes School. Two fishermen wait patiently for a bite adjacent to a time worn cottage, which is nestled into foliage. A mother and child, together with their loyal hound, wander by the river.

Overall size: 23” x 22½” / 58cm x 57cmYear of creation: c

the buildings are switched around

predominantly self-taught

Is he an outlandish rogue or the one she really wants to marry

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 44” x 35” / 111cm x 89cmYear of creation: c

his specialisms included statues

the hope and exhilaration of the dawn

The ideas were circling without a true creative release

The combination of pond and tree is not man-made yet they complement each other as if planned for eternity

The painting is unsigned but once bore a label

As the moon breaks through a gap in the clouds

He exhibited the latter at the Salon for many years and won a first-class medal for lithographic drawings