Owen Bowen ROI, River Landscape With Figure

Owen Bowen ROI, River Landscape With FigureThis late 19th century oil painting by British artist Owen Bowen ROI (1873 1967) depicts a wintery river landscape. Brilliant light rushes against the complexity of brooding storm clouds. Illuminating the sullen river akin to fervently polished silver. The effects are bewitching. Nature immortalised in a transient state, caught between contrasting moods. Across the grassy banks, the foliage leans. Buckled by the irrepressible hand of the desolate

Granet was particularly obsessed with the dank stone walls of sparse crypts and produced many notable works for the Salon

A precocious talent

her career flourished quickly and she was winning awards by the age of 15

Now will he sit under a medlar treeAnd wish his mistress were that kind of fruitAs maids call medlars when they laugh alone

Schovelin was a master of light and enjoyed the spacious views in this part of Denmark

which complement the dresses

While the seductive Zeus conveys all his persuasiveness via the medium of a bird

Intriguingly

1880Condition: Overall very presentable

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he chose to romanticise Greenland’s harsh landscape rather than dwell on the realities of life in the Arctic

This late 18th-century oil painting depicts a pious upstanding 17th-century cleric