Joshua Anderson Hague, Landscape With Watermill & Bridge A Shelf you’ll see a lady picking

you’ll see a lady picking flowers by the river and holding a posy

find many friends wherever they happen to tarry for a season

000 (over £60 million today) - an astonishing sum and one which could’ve been put to better use

There’s an underdrawing in pencil which has been mostly drawn over in ink

Overall size: 12½” x 15½” / 31cm x 39cm

Joshua Anderson Hague, Landscape With Watermill & Bridge A Shelf you’ll see a lady pickingThis absorbing view of a mill by British artist Joshua Anderson Hague (1850 1916), a contributor to the Manchester School of Painters, captures the energy of cascading water with an array of impressionistic marks. Through a clever composition, the whole scene ebbs and flows from top to bottom, zigzagging its way from the clouds to the rocks by our feet. Hes describing a working landscape, the active mill fed by its environment. You can almost hear the