Description
Antique Oil Painting ‘Travelling Horsemen’ signed Harden Sidney Melville (1824-1894)
A well-executed oil painting by listed British artist- Harden Sidney Melville- is best known for landscape paintings with horses, particularly workhorses and animals such as these.
The painting depicts horses pulling a carriage in the countryside, with scenes of a cottage and farm birds and dogs.
Size 72 cm x 50 cm (28.5 x 19.5 inches)
Artist: Harden Sidney Melville (1824–1894)
He was an English painter and draughtsman. He received a medal from the Society of Arts and had three paintings hung in the Royal Academy’s show between 1837 and 1841. He conducted the first official hydrographic survey of the northeast coast of Australia in 1842–1846 onboard the H.M.S Fly, which was under the command of Captain Francis Price Blackwood. He also illustrated several notable Australian works including Joseph Beete Jukes’s official narrative of Fly’s voyage and Ludwig Leichhardt’s Journal.
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