Pair of English Genre Oil Paintings by popular well listed British genre artist Edward Masters (English, 19th c.) Entitled ENGLISH COTTAGES | Oil on Canvas | Each signed in lower left of canvas with Edward Master's monogram | Depicting thatched country cottages with figures and horses | Each housed in matching gold gilt gesso wood frames; with brass plaques of artist | Approx. Measurements: each image 13.5" h x 19.25" w, overall including frame 19.25" h x 24.25" w x 2.25" d | Edward Masters lived in old Woking and mainly painted scenes of farm and village life in Surrey. His popularity as a painter flourished between 1869 and 1875, exhibiting at the Royal Society of British Artists in 1869.