£850
John Pennington (1773-1841) - Extensive Early Industrial Landscape with Mill, subsidiary buildings, bleaching fields and a country house beyond, three children with a bird's nest to fore, signed, oil on canvas, 89 x 114cm
The as yet unidentified location of this accomplished early industrial scene, perhaps commissioned by the mill owner and staffed by his children, could very possibly be Lancashire or adjoining counties in the north of England. There is some uncertainty in the records over whether there may have been up to three named John Pennington, but it is highly probable that they were connected with the several 18th c Liverpool porcelain factories owned at different times by the Pennington family. A John Pennington was a founder member of the Liverpool Academy and exhibited there from Everton Terrace, Liverpool, between 1824-1839.
Old restoration, the medium thin in places beneath localised overpainting, the support lined perhaps in the middle years of the 20th c when placed into the present 18th c style frame, the stretchers possibly original
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