18th Century English Sheep Shorn Fleece Landscape James WARD (1769-1859)

Fine 17th century Dutch School Old Master portrait of three figures drinking and smoking in a tavern interior, oil on panel attributed to Adriaen Brouwer. Original condition and detail little study of the three peasants around a corner table with a jug and pipe. Presented in a gilt and wood frame with plaque bearing incorrect spelling taken from provenance label verso.

• Provenance
  The Collection of Peter Cochrane, before 1955 
  
  Literature
  B. Taylor, Animal painting in England, Middlesex, 1955. p. 66, ill., pl. IV 
  
  Exhibited
  Arts Council of Great Britain, James Ward 1769-1859, 1960, cat. no. 52 
  
  Ward exhibited a similar work, Sheep-shearing: Taking off their clothes at the Royal Academy in 1846, cat. no. 354.