Frederik de Moucheron

Sheffield Park, East Sussex, England, childhood home of Winston Churchill's son-in-law, Captain Christopher Soames, according to a label on the stretcher;
Private collection, New Jersey.

Oil on canvas, lined. The picture surface is somewhat flattened with surface dirt and a dirtied varnish. Some thinness throughout the work. Under UV light, the varnish fluoresces green over the majority of the work. There are scattered spots of strengthening visible over the varnish in the tree at left and in the central tree, especially along the edges of the foliage and in the branches. Additional areas of inpainting along the horizon and in the figures scattered throughout the landscape.
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