Bidspirit auction | British School, 19th Century, Pastoral

British School, 19th Century, Pastoral Landscape with a Cottage and Cattle - A 19th-century British School landscape executed in watercolour with gouache highlights on paper. The composition presents a tranquil pastoral scene featuring a river in the foreground that leads the eye toward a central stand of mature deciduous trees. To the left, cattle are depicted grazing in a sunlit meadow, while a figure is visible on a path near a small building. The right mid-ground contains a cottage with a smoking chimney situated near a cascading waterfall. A steep, atmospheric hill or mountain rises in the background under a soft, overcast sky. The work demonstrates the mid-to-late 19th-century British tradition of landscape painting, focusing on light and atmospheric perspective. Dark pigmented marks are visible in the lower right corner, though they are not clearly legible and cannot be transcribed. The watercolour is presented in a cream French mount with hand-drawn ruled lines and is housed in a traditional gilt wood frame.