Frederick Waters Watts, British 1800-1870- Drover with cattle watering in an extensive landscape; oil on canvas, bears label for 'Coombs & Percival Ltd., London' attached to the upper stretcher bar,51 x 76.2 cm. Provenance: Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 4 March 2004, lot 494 (for £3,000). Private Collection, UK. Note: The present dramatic, windswept landscape is typical of Watts' oeuvre, which was heavily influenced by John Constable (1776-1837), whilst also revealing a debt to earlier generations of Dutch landscape painters, which included figures such as Jacob van Ruisdael (1628/29-1682) and Meindert Hobbema (1638-1709).

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