Lot 86
JOSEPH FARQUHARSON R.A (1846-1935)
SHEEP IN A SNOW COVERED LANDSCAPE
Auction: 24 May 2002 at 12:00 BST
£17,625
Description
Signed, oil on canvas
31cm x 51cm (12in x 20in)
Footnote
Note: Farquharson's work has always ben held in the highest regard. The celebrated artist Walter Sickert wrote an essay comparing Farquharson's treatment of snow scenes to those of Courbet and praised the former's lightness of touch, 'the mark of a real painter'. As he grew older his work became more impressionistic, less pictorially precise. The mood began to transcend the particulars,