JOSEPH KIRKPATRICK - FINE WATERCOLOUR - BLOSSOM TIME - LEDBURY IN HEREFORDSHIRE - 1919

Selling a large collection of water colours, oil paintings. and prints -  collected over 50 years. 

Lovely large watercolour by British artist  Joseph Kirkpatrick - 1872 - 1936. 

The painting is entitled Blossom Time - Ledbury in Herefordshire and was painted in 1919 while he was on holiday in the county.

The gold frame is 65cm wide x 52.5cm height - 25.75 inches x 20.75 inches.

Superb painted image - 34cm wide  x 46cm height - 13.5 inches x 18 inches  

Joseph Kirkpatrick was British painter best known for his highly-detailed watercolor renderings of rural English landscapes. The artist’s pastoral scenes were often romanticized—he frequently painted gentile women roaming through the forest, playing and working with animals, and lounging on fields of grass. His best known work, Ophelia (1896), shows Shakespeare’s tragic figure roaming the forest woods covered in flowers in the moments before she drowns herself. Born in 1872 in Liverpool, United Kingdom, he studied under John Finnie at the Liverpool School of Art, and later at the Académie Julian in Paris under the prominent French painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau. He began exhibiting at the Royal Academy in London in 1898, where he showed a series of works he produced while traveling in North Africa titled The Marsham Gate. Kirkpatrick died in 1936 in Arundel, United Kingdom. Today, Kirkpatrick's main works are held in the collection of the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and several other municipal art galleries.

Beautiful condition and colouring considering painted in 1919

I have another larger water colour by the same artist if anyone is interested.