Hugh Church, Shakespeare's Birthplace, Stratford-Upon-Avon

Hugh Church, Shakespeare's Birthplace, Stratford-Upon-AvonAn early 20th century oil on board depicting Shakespeare's Birthplace by British artist Hugh Church (b. 1865). Two gentlemen on horseback look across towards a mother who is carrying a child and standing in a doorway. While a third gentleman holds a large piece of ironwork, which is perhaps a tether bar. The Great Bard was born and raised in this charming timber framed building and also spent five years here with Anne Hathaway. Perhaps Church enjoyed

he was represented at the Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées

A fine early 19th-century portrait of Carl Gustaf Dahlgren of Ljungby

Or is it Aunt Ester herself

cottages and a woman washing linens

Size 21½” x 18” / 55cm x 46cm

particularly during the Art Deco era

by painter and actor Georg Adam Strohecker (1846-1899)

Germany and Ohio

coupled with his witty observations

The trees are beautifully rendered with broad strokes and a muted palette

in 2015 for ‘Im Künstleratelier’ (50cm x 39

The portrait is housed within a period frame