George Percival Gaskell, The Mill Pond Black Medium Oil on canvas

Medium Oil on canvas

This was then emphasised with frilly blouses and decorative lace

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The portrait is held within a later frame

She wears a white dress with a red wrap and holds her treasured Cavalier King Charles Spaniel

George Percival Gaskell, The Mill Pond Black Medium Oil on canvasA sublime turn of the century oil on canvas depicting a view across a mill pond towards an undulant landscape. The artist, George Percival Gaskell RBA (1868 1934), has adopted a hazy style of brushwork thats akin to a Monet at its most dreamlike. Given the size of the piece, its a painting to lose yourself into. Gaskell was a painter and print maker that hailed from Shiply in Yorkshire. He studied at the Royal College of Art in London, in Paris and in