Rowland Holyoake, Portrait Of A Girl With Wildflowers

Rowland Holyoake, Portrait Of A Girl With WildflowersThis charming late 19th century oil painting by British artist Rowland Holyoake (1861 1928) depicts a girl carrying wildflowers while wearing a straw hat decorated with the same. It was previously valued by Christies, London, at 5,000 7,000. Holyoake was a Royal Academy trained painter of portraits, scenes and landscapes. Clutching a freshly picked curated posy of spritely blooms, shes perhaps looking across the garden for further additions. Her hat,

he undertook the mainstay of his training in Paris and

1488-1576) and Paolo Veronese (1528-1588)

Two figures look on from a clifftop as the sailors cling on for their lives

in a packed Montmartre restaurant

761 achieved for ‘Ansicht von Danzig’ in 2005

There’s a sense of poetry to his brush as if each mark is underpinned by iambic pentameter

were a particular inspiration

Other drawings by Durand are held in the Royal Collection

entitled ‘Surrey Landscape At Sunset’

David became a teacher of distinction with many of his pupils becoming masters of note

each piece of embroidery exquisitely described

depicting various scenes from the Bible - such as the ‘Woe of Christ over Jerusalem’ and ‘Abraham