Charles Leslie, Landscape With Maids Tending The Flock

Charles Leslie, Landscape With Maids Tending The FlockA gentle British pastoral scene depicting three women tending to their flock. The artist, Charles Leslie (1839 1886) has selected a time of the day when the sun is low and the shadows are long. Its a painting to lose yourself into. Charles Leslie was a member of the Williams family of painters who were widely known during the 19th century. His grandfather, Edward Williams (17811855), was an accomplished landscape painter and all six of his sons became

A fine 19th-century rural scene by English genre painter

portraits and pastoral scenes

An early 20th-century oil on wood depicting a lady wearing a stone-coloured dress with a decorative collar and vest

Florence Olga Abrahamson (1877-1965)

He trained in Brussels and was a quiet man who preferred to work alone

Towards the end of the 17th-century

Frame with general wear including a scratch on the left-hand side

5½” x 5⅔” / 14cm x 14

Certainly a talking point

The details are extraordinary

it actually dates back to classical times and was considered to denote good breeding and ‘manly boldness tempered with modesty

If it’s an original