19th-Century Dutch School Landscape With Villagers Urban A most unusual dark portrait

A most unusual dark portrait of a lady in a black hat

and a cafe with timber cladding

100 achieved at Auktionshaus Stahl for ‘Raddampfer vor Venedig' (44

Mathy fought in the First World War and drew many landscapes from the fields at Flanders

Signed in the lower left and housed within a highly decorative frame

19th-Century Dutch School Landscape With Villagers Urban A most unusual dark portraitA charming 19th century oil on canvas depicting a Dutch rural scene with a cottage, country track, figures and a distant view. Its skilfully rendered and probably after one of the 17th century Dutch old masters, such as Meindert Hobbema (1638 1709). The Dutch enjoyed landscape painting during the 17th century and youll often find rural views animated with local peasants chatting or travelling. Painters such Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564 1638)