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Ash Trees at Cropthorne, Worcestershire - Alfred Parsons
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A detailed oil painting by Alfred Parsons capturing the serene banks of the River Avon in Worcestershire, featuring mature ash trees and soft light.
Alfred Parsons was a painter, illustrator, and garden designer whose work captures the specific character of the English countryside. In this piece, he depicts the banks of the River Avon near the village of Cropthorne in Worcestershire. The composition focuses on the mature ash trees that dominate the foreground, their foliage rendered with a precise attention to form and light that reflects the artist's botanical expertise.
Parsons often worked in both oil and watercolour, and his background as a garden designer informs the way he structures the space. The viewer is positioned on a grassy slope, looking down towards the river, which winds through the middle distance. The light is soft, typical of a temperate climate, casting gentle shadows across the meadow and illuminating the textures of the bark and leaves. The sky is filled with light, broken cloud cover, which adds a sense of atmospheric depth to the scene.
Unlike many of his contemporaries who moved towards more abstract or impressionistic styles, Parsons maintained a commitment to representational accuracy. His work provides a clear record of the rural English environment at the end of the nineteenth century. The painting avoids dramatic artifice, preferring instead to document the quiet, everyday beauty of the Worcestershire river valley. The palette is dominated by natural greens, earthy browns, and the muted blues and greys of the sky, creating a cohesive and calm visual experience. This work is representative of the late Victorian interest in the preservation and documentation of the British rural identity, a theme that permeated much of the art and literature of the period.
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Ash Trees at Cropthorne, Worcestershire - Alfred Parsons
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Fine Art Poster / A4 (21x29.7 cm) / -
Artist Biography
Alfred Parsons
Alfred Parsons was the kind of Victorian artist who could fill a gallery with landscapes and a library with illustrations, and do both well enough to be taken seriously at each. Born in Beckington, Somerset in 1847, he trained himself largely by doing, and by the time he reached London in the 1870s he was already making a reputation as a black-and-white illustrator for Harper's New Monthly Magazine and other American publications that paid well for English rural scenes.
It was his eye for gardens that set him apart. Parsons had a genuine feeling for the way English cottage and manor gardens worked: their colour sequences, their relationship to the surrounding landscape, the social world they implied. His collaboration with the gardening writer E.T. Cook on articles for various publications developed into a consistent visual language for the late Victorian garden, and his paintings were sought after by the country-house owners whose properties he depicted.
In 1891 he contributed illustrations to Henry James's collection of essays A Little Tour in France, though gardens rather than buildings remained his primary subject. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1911. Parsons also designed gardens professionally, most notably The Courts in Wiltshire, which he began laying out around 1900 and which passed eventually to the National Trust.
His watercolours have a directness that reads as almost modern: flat washes, clear light, plants described with botanical accuracy but without preciousness. He died in Broadway, Worcestershire in 1920, having spent many years in that colony of Anglo-American artists centred on John Singer Sargent and Francis Millet.
It was his eye for gardens that set him apart. Parsons had a genuine feeling for the way English cottage and manor gardens worked: their colour sequences, their relationship to the surrounding landscape, the social world they implied. His collaboration with the gardening writer E.T. Cook on articles for various publications developed into a consistent visual language for the late Victorian garden, and his paintings were sought after by the country-house owners whose properties he depicted.
In 1891 he contributed illustrations to Henry James's collection of essays A Little Tour in France, though gardens rather than buildings remained his primary subject. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1911. Parsons also designed gardens professionally, most notably The Courts in Wiltshire, which he began laying out around 1900 and which passed eventually to the National Trust.
His watercolours have a directness that reads as almost modern: flat washes, clear light, plants described with botanical accuracy but without preciousness. He died in Broadway, Worcestershire in 1920, having spent many years in that colony of Anglo-American artists centred on John Singer Sargent and Francis Millet.
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- Rahmen in Schwarz, Naturholz, dunklem Holz oder Weiß
- Gerahmte Drucke werden fertig zum Aufhängen geliefert
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- Vorsichtig mit einem weichen, trockenen Tuch abstauben
- Längere direkte Sonneneinstrahlung vermeiden
- Niemals flüssige Reiniger auf Druck- oder Leinwandoberflächen verwenden
- An einem trockenen Ort bei Raumtemperatur aufbewahren
- Drucke mit sauberen, trockenen Händen anfassen
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Museums-Giclée-Druck auf FSC-zertifiziertem, archivbeständigem, mattem Papier, wahlweise mit Rahmen oder als Leinwand.
- Papierformate: A4, A3, A2, A1, A0 und B2 (50×70 cm)
- Leinwand: XS (20×30 cm) bis Large (60×90 cm)
- Rahmen: Schwarz, Naturholz, dunkles Holz oder Weiß
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Alfred Parsons
Alfred Parsons was the kind of Victorian artist who could fill a gallery with landscapes and a library with illustrations, and do both well enough to be taken seriously at each. Born in Beckington, Somerset in 1847, he trained himself largely by doing, and by the time he reached London in the 1870s he was already making a reputation as a black-and-white illustrator for Harper's New Monthly Magazine and other American publications that paid well for English rural scenes.
It was his eye for gardens that set him apart. Parsons had a genuine feeling for the way English cottage and manor gardens worked: their colour sequences, their relationship to the surrounding landscape, the social world they implied. His collaboration with the gardening writer E.T. Cook on articles for various publications developed into a consistent visual language for the late Victorian garden, and his paintings were sought after by the country-house owners whose properties he depicted.
In 1891 he contributed illustrations to Henry James's collection of essays A Little Tour in France, though gardens rather than buildings remained his primary subject. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1911. Parsons also designed gardens professionally, most notably The Courts in Wiltshire, which he began laying out around 1900 and which passed eventually to the National Trust.
His watercolours have a directness that reads as almost modern: flat washes, clear light, plants described with botanical accuracy but without preciousness. He died in Broadway, Worcestershire in 1920, having spent many years in that colony of Anglo-American artists centred on John Singer Sargent and Francis Millet.
It was his eye for gardens that set him apart. Parsons had a genuine feeling for the way English cottage and manor gardens worked: their colour sequences, their relationship to the surrounding landscape, the social world they implied. His collaboration with the gardening writer E.T. Cook on articles for various publications developed into a consistent visual language for the late Victorian garden, and his paintings were sought after by the country-house owners whose properties he depicted.
In 1891 he contributed illustrations to Henry James's collection of essays A Little Tour in France, though gardens rather than buildings remained his primary subject. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1911. Parsons also designed gardens professionally, most notably The Courts in Wiltshire, which he began laying out around 1900 and which passed eventually to the National Trust.
His watercolours have a directness that reads as almost modern: flat washes, clear light, plants described with botanical accuracy but without preciousness. He died in Broadway, Worcestershire in 1920, having spent many years in that colony of Anglo-American artists centred on John Singer Sargent and Francis Millet.
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