Abraham Hulk Junior, Autumnal Landscape With Father & Child

Abraham Hulk Junior, Autumnal Landscape With Father & ChildThis charming autumnal landscape by Anglo Dutch artist, Abraham Hulk Junior (1844 1922) depicts a picturesque view with country track, figures, and distant hill. A tight blanket of dense clouds hover as light flickers from puddles of trodden earth. The partially bereft branches indicate the season, their wind battered forms buried in foliage. He's heading towards a distant field, clutching his daughters hand the path ahead peppered with golden hay.

they guide the eye towards a horizon rendered in near-violet tones

The painting is housed within a later frame and bears a restoration label from Bo Åke Wildenstam (1918-1995) - a Swedish conservator and painter

This portrait is inscribed on the reverse and dedicated to a friend

such as Claude Lorrain (1604/5-1682)

Chappel was painting ‘as best he could’

areas of light gently cascade across the mossy water

It was probably undertaken on one of his many European study trips

She sadly died young while also in India

a scattering a timber-framed buildings help to guide our eye outwards the evening’s sunlit sky

Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (1890-1978)

seasons and various moods

It’s a decadent ensemble of lobsters and oysters