Walter Frederick Osborne RHA ROI (1859-1903)
'Old Inn'
Watercolour on card, 24.5 x 17cm (9.6 x 6.6) Signed

With a fragment of the original back panel board and an old label verso inscribed

Walter Frederick Osborne RHA ROI (1859-1903)
'Old Inn'
Watercolour on card, 24.5 x 17cm (9.6 x 6.6) Signed

With a fragment of the original back panel board and an old label verso inscribed Old Inn / Walter Osborne / 1886 - His First Exhibited Watercolour / P.C Trench / 5 Fitzwilliam Place

Exhibited: Possibly, Dublin Art Club, 1886 as The Village Inn, cat. no. 126

Julian Campbell has written : Having earlier studied in Dublin and Antwerp and painted in Brittany, Osborne spent much of the second half of the 1880s working in English villages and towns, painting a series of village, farming and coastal scenes. These are some of the finest pictures of his career. He painted much in Berkshire and Oxfordshire, for instance at Newbury, Uffington, Didcot and on the Downs. Osborne was inspired by the rich tones of English buildings that glowed warmly in the sunshine: reds and russets of brick walls, brown of timber and maroons of roof tiles, as well as ochre clay and verdant foliage.

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