Edwin Hughes, The Blacksmith

Edwin Hughes, The BlacksmithThis late 19th century oil painting by British artist Edwin Hughes (1842 1922) depicts a blacksmith holding a horseshoe while conversing with a gentleman through a window. His assistant works at the forge. Edwin Hughes was an accomplished genre painter known for his charming portrayals of Victorian life and costume paintings with historical references an optimistic suitor offers a white rose to a demure young lady, a ragged middle aged gentleman dozes

Edvard Petersen worked in a style influenced by one of the masters of romantic Danish landscape painting

British Institution

The painting is signed in the lower right and housed within a decorative coved frame with a foliate border

Staring intently through the mists of time

John and Fanny hailed from Billingford in Norfolk and were born into a family with a rich farming heritage

200 achieved for ‘Interior of Ramridge House’ at Christie’s in 1988

where he worked as a court painter for Emperor Franz I

the heath glows with a sense of mysticism and poetry

North Denmark

It’s interesting to consider how some artists chose to depict their trauma so viscerally through expressive

He was trained by his uncle

of Ancient and Modern History and of Greek Language