Not on display

Meadow scene with cattle and trees

Oil Painting
ca. 1880-1906 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Oil painting of a meadow scene with cattle grazing among trees.

Object details

Category
Object type
TitleMeadow scene with cattle and trees (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Oil on canvas
Brief description
Oil painting entitled 'Meadow Scene with Cattle and Trees' by James Charles. Great Britain, ca. 1870-1906.
Physical description
Oil painting of a meadow scene with cattle grazing among trees.
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 13.625in
  • Estimate width: 18.5in
Dimensions taken from Summary catalogue of British Paintings, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1973
Style
Credit line
Bequeathed by Henry Louis Florence
Object history
Bequeathed by Henry L. Florence, 1916

Historical significance: James Henry Charles (1851-1906), portrait and landscape painter, was born at Warrington in Lancashire. His father, Richard Charles, was a designer. At the age of fourteen James Charles accompanied his father to London, where he worked in his father's office and was employed for some time by a lithographer. He then studied at Heatherley's School of Art in Chelsea, and in 1872 entered the Royal Academy Schools.

Charles began his career as a portrait painter. In 1879 he met the Bradford Mill owner John Maddocks, who became an important patron, and encouraged him to paint rural genre subjects. During the 1880s Charles formed important friendships with members of the New English Art Club, in particular George Clausen and Henry Herbert La Thangue. The influence of this group of painters, who looked to the French impressionist painters for inspiration, is evident in this naturalistic rural scene.

This painting was bequeathed to the V&A in 1916 by Henry L. Florence of Prince's Gate, South Kensington, London. The bequest also included paintings by Brangwyn, Clausen, Corot, Leighton and Fantin-Latour.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
P.46-1917

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Record createdJuly 6, 2006
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