1837 Fine English Oil on Wood Panel, Cow in a Meadow signed by Abraham Bruiningh van Worrell and dated 1837. Some craquelure. In custom made gold leaf and wood frame. In frame measures 13"x15"x2 1/4. Weight 3 pds. PROVENANCE: A Charleston SC Private Estate. Abraham Bruiningh van Worrell was a painter in oils and watercolours, as well as being a printmaker, who was based both in Middleburg and London during his career. He had achieved honours in his art studies in Europe being awarded full membership of the Royal Academies of Holland and Belgium and this was a fact that he occasionally added after his signature on his work. He came to London in 1820 and produced mainly Dutch views for the English market: landscapes with milkmaids by Friesian cows in strongly coloured landscapes rather in the manner of the Flemish Henri Joseph Antonissen and his fellow countrymen Leendert de Koningh, who also resided in England, and the earlier Jan van Gool. He translated this style to many of his English scenes with the consequence that these scenes seem slicker and more polished than had they been done by a native artist. He moved to Newcastle in about 1840 and this move seems to have resulted in an increase in commissions and the commensurate financial reward. Paintings by him were shown at the London venues between 1820 and 1849 with eight at the Royal Academy, twenty-one at the British Institute and twenty-eight at the Royal Society of British Artists in Suffolk Street. Exhibited titles include: “Cattle with Dutch Milkmaid”, “A Dutch Fair at Oasterland in South Beverland”, “Fishermen and Women of Cullencoats in the County of Northumberland”, “Cattle and Landscape, Wandsworth Old and New Church in the Distance”, “Flower Piece”, “Bell, a favourite Setter” and “The Giraffe, accompanied by his Keeper” Examples of van Worrell’s paintings are held in the Royal Collection “The Last Shooting Excursion of Frederick, Duke of York near Belvoir Castle” which was painted in 1827 and purchased by Edward VII; the British Museum, “Bull in a landscape” and “The Giraffe” and Colchester Museum “The Old Mill, Colchester”. REF: Dictionary of English Landscape Painters- M.H. Grant

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