John Falconar Slater, River Landscape With Town

John Falconar Slater, River Landscape With TownThis large early 20th century oil painting by English artist John Falconar Slater (1857 1937) depicts a picturesque river landscape with a town and distant hills. Slater was an accomplished, Royal Academy exhibited, painter of landscapes, seascapes and scenes. Under a glowering sky, which dominates the composition, a silvery river snakes between its banks towards a distant row of buildings, rendered in grey. While on the right, a diminutive figure

art and ceramics

With a deft touch and a passion for decorative ensembles

so silly witty

juxtaposed with the mischievous terrier

and the Order of the Dannebrog

Alongside his ‘day job’

It’s probably a view on the Malvern Hills

which guides the eye further

the rising middle classes took note and he quickly became a firm favourite

1918Provenance: Private collection

His hunting scenes and still lifes with game were also popular with the aristocracy

missing only a handful of years