Bidspirit auction | British School, 19th Century, Highland

British School, 19th Century, Highland Interior with Sleeping Spinner - A 19th-century oil painting on canvas depicting a romanticized Scottish genre scene. The composition features a young woman asleep at a spinning wheel in a rustic cottage interior. A man in traditional Highland dress, including a kilt, sporran, and bonnet, leans toward her while holding a wooden staff. A black and white sheepdog stands at his feet. The style is characteristic of Victorian narrative painting with a provincial hand. The work is presented in a large, ornate gilt-finished wooden frame with molded foliate and beaded decoration. The reverse shows an aged, darkened canvas on a fixed wooden stretcher. The handwritten digits 610 are visible on the upper back of the frame.