Antique Watercolour: Cottage and Barn with Seated

A charming 19th-century English watercolour of a weathered half-timbered cottage with a tall brick chimney, a rustic clapboard barn and a lone figure resting beside a rutted country lane. It’s painted in the English picturesque tradition, in the manner of Samuel Prout and the followers of David Cox, with lively broken outlines and a soft palette of sepia, warm browns and pale blue sky. Fine details like the leaded windows, mossy roof tiles and the tumbledown fence give it real character.