James Stark (Circle), Wooded Landscape With Country Track, Shepherd & Sheep A Nook The painting is housed within

The painting is housed within an appropriate decorative frame with foliate embellishments

510 for ‘View of the Bay of Naples with a Monk and a Clergyman (1885)’

1950Provenance: USACondition: Very presentable overall with no issues

with many based on earlier paintings

each night Leander would swim across the strait to spend time with Hero

James Stark (Circle), Wooded Landscape With Country Track, Shepherd & Sheep A Nook The painting is housed withinThis charming mid 19th century English oil painting depicts a rutted country track passing through a wood with a shepherd, several sheep and resting figures. Under a cloudy sky, amid the mild heat of early evening, a family rests by a gnarled oak. A shepherd stands alongside his modest flock deterred by an alert border collie. In the distance, a conspicuous spire suggests a village. Both the style and composition are inspired by the great landscape