19th-Century French School Barbizon School Landscape With Fisherman square Its smoke seems to echo

Its smoke seems to echo the flames that rise from the nearby burning buildings

It depicts a shepherd and shepherdess tending to their animals by the River Medway in Kent

A rare and unusual piece

Snell was an interesting painter as his works span a transitionary period for British art

while he's casually perched in his study adjectant to a notebook and the morning news

19th-Century French School Barbizon School Landscape With Fisherman square Its smoke seems to echoA wonderfully atmospheric French school landscape depicting a tree lined pond and a seated fisherman. It has a lost in time quality and appears to be a barn find. Its signed L Devedeux, which refers to the great French landscape painter Louis Devedeux (1820 1874). Its unlikely that he painted this so perhaps the artist was a follower. Its certainly from the same period. The painting is housed within a chippy gilded frame with swept foliate decoration.