Wooded Landscape with Cattle and Sheep and Peasant Figures by a River
Benjamin Barker (Pontypool 1776 – Totnes 1838)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1811 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
864 x 1168 mm (34 x 46 in)
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 884908
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Wooded landscape with cattle and sheep and peasant figures by a river by Benjamin Barker (Pontypool 1776 – Totnes 1838), signed and dated bottom right 'Benj.Barker 1811'. A landscape view with peasant figures by a river with cattle and sheep in a wood in the manner of Jacob van Ruisdael.
Provenance
From a bequest of Mrs. Batten-Pooll, Ugborough House the former Rectory of Ugborough, Ugborough (east of Plymouth), Devon, 1984.
Marks and inscriptions
Benj. Barker 1811
Makers and roles
Benjamin Barker (Pontypool 1776 – Totnes 1838), artist