Untitled.
Flat, rural landscape with a low horizon. A young girl is watering cattle at the water’s edge in centre foreground. A label at rear suggests that this may be an example of the artist’s work while a student, in South Kensington, in 1878.
Artist: Richard Henry Albert Willis was born in Dingle, Co. Kerry in July 1853. He moved to Cork as a child and was apprenticed there, c. 1869, to architect Arthur Hill. Willis attended Cork School of Art as well as the National Art Training School in South Kensington, London. Between 1882 and 1892 Willis held the post of Headmaster of Manchester School of Art. Willis exhibited at the Royal Academy London from 1882 to 1899. He died in 1905 and is buried in Rathcormac, Co. Cork.
Oil on canvas on board
c. 30 x 50 cm
Framed: c. 47 x 61 cm