Antique miniature Folk Art pot lid painting of rural Welsh landscape scene
A beautifully charming and well executed miniature oil painting produced on a discarded metal pot lid. The painting depicts an idyllic rural scene with two figures walking along a country path leading to a distant building and treeline.
The piece being titled ‘Near Briedden Hills’. The Breidden Hills are a prominent volcanic ridge in Powys, Wales, located near the border with Shropshire, England, and about 10 miles west of Shrewsbury.
The painting is unsigned but forms a part of a larger collection produced by Frank Shayler. Frank Hearn Shayler (1867–1954) was a Shrewsbury-based architect, and hobbyist artist, who predominantly worked in an Arts and Crafts architectural style throughout Oxfordshire and Wales.
A quintessentially Folk Art piece oozing with charm and good academic merit.
The piece measures 18cm x 5.5cm
Antique miniature Folk Art pot lid painting of rural Welsh landscape scene
A beautifully charming and well executed miniature oil painting produced on a discarded metal pot lid. The painting depicts an idyllic rural scene with two figures walking along a country path leading to a distant building and treeline.
The piece being titled ‘Near Briedden Hills’. The Breidden Hills are a prominent volcanic ridge in Powys, Wales, located near the border with Shropshire, England, and about 10 miles west of Shrewsbury.
The painting is unsigned but forms a part of a larger collection produced by Frank Shayler. Frank Hearn Shayler (1867–1954) was a Shrewsbury-based architect, and hobbyist artist, who predominantly worked in an Arts and Crafts architectural style throughout Oxfordshire and Wales.
A quintessentially Folk Art piece oozing with charm and good academic merit.
The piece measures 18cm x 5.5cm
