Local Artists And Places Gallery

Portrait of a Lady called Countess of Nottingham (c.1547-1603) ()

Artist: Critz, John de the elder (attributed to) - Title: Portrait of a Lady called Countess of Nottingham (c.1547-1603) () - Date: 1600-1605 - Original Medium and Size: Oil on Wood 113.6 x 85.7

16th Century, 17th Century, Countess, Dark Hair, Dress, Female, Figure, John De The Elder Critz, Lady, Nottingham, Oil Painting, Pale, Portait, Ruff, Standing, Woman

The Donkey Drivers aka Near Windsor Forest, by Paul Sandby

Landscape featuring woodland with a road running through the centre of the composition. The road is at its widest point in the foreground and narrows into the distance. To the left middle distance are fairly high trees on a bank with a gate. painting (gouache), 200x260 mm, mount 317x456 mm

Animal, Country Side, Landscape, Nature, Transport, Tree

Celadon and Amelia in a storm, by John Wood

Two figures in a stormy landscape. On the left is a young man dressed in a beret style hat, white ruffed neck collar, jacket, belt and breeches, with stockings and shoes. He looks up toward the cloudy black sky, and holds aloft in his right hand a shepherd's crook. He has his left arm around the waist of a young dark haired woman in a full length dress, with short puffed sleeves and low d??©colletage, a sash and shoes. She also looks up at the sky, her hands clasped in front of her, as if in supplication. In the background on the left is a break in the clouds, with, below the figures, trees and a town.
Illustrates part of "The Seasons" by James Thomson - "Summer", published in 1727.
"... Young Celedon
And his Amelia were a matchless pair,
With equal virtue formed and equal grace,
The same, distinguished by their sex alone:
Hers the mild lustre of the blooming morn,
And his the radiance of the risen day."
Unfortunately, as they wander through the woods, Amelia is struck by lightning and dies: "not always on the guilty head descends the fatal flash"

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