Description
William Vivian Tippett (British, 1833 – 1910) — Landscape with Cattle Fording.
Oil on canvas, unframed.
– Signed and dated lower left: “W. V. Tippett 1901”.
William Vivian Tippett was a British painter active in the second half of the nineteenth century, known for animal subjects and rural landscapes in the Victorian tradition. The painting depicts a group of mixed-breed cattle crossing a shallow river in an autumnal landscape; in the background, misty hills and a mountain profile open up, while trees in ochre and copper tones animate the left bank. The brushwork is fluid in the rendering of the water’s reflections and the cloudy sky, and more precise in the definition of the animals in the foreground. The subject belongs to the tradition of British animal painting of the late nineteenth century.
Condition report: Original canvas. Good state of conservation of the pictorial surface, with signs of aging and wear.
