A Country Landscape With Harvesters At Rest, George Turner (1843-1910), British

George Turner
British, (1843-1910)
A Country Landscape with Harvesters at Rest, 1879
Oil on board, signed & dated "79" on lower left
Image size: 39.5" by 24"
Size including frame: 46.75" by 31"

This is an incredibly evocative scene of harvesters resting on the soft, rolling hills of the English countryside, in the late afternoon sun. Photographs do not do justice to the stunning light of this painting, nor to the cloud formations in the sky above the hills with a flock of birds in the distance. The painting is both monumental and intimate, a sweeping vista that is also singularly English in feeling.
Framed in a substantial wood frame, softly gilded and highlighted with tones of white and pale green. 
George Turner was a renowned English landscape painter and farmer who has been called "Derbyshire's John Constable".