Farm near Alton - Watercolour by Will Anderson

A long, low watercolour of a farm near Alton, in Hampshire, England: thatched barns and cottages around a yard, a haystack, figures on the lane and geese wandering through the grass, with blue hills and a big cloudy sky behind. The title and the name of the painter, Will Anderson, are lettered on the gilt slip below the picture. Anderson was a 19th-century London painter of the farms and cottages of Surrey, Kent and Hampshire. The colours are soft and washed rather than bright. It is framed under glass in a wide gilt frame with a beaded outer edge. We would hang it above a bench or a low chest, where its long shape sits well. One available.