Charles Leslie, Landscape With Maids Tending The Flock 1720s Very tired with flaking paint

Very tired with flaking paint in several areas

It depicts Christ on the cross with a crown of thorns

Dated on the reverse

The portrait is housed within a later gilded frame with a decorative inner border

Antonio Francesco Mensi (1800-1888)

Charles Leslie, Landscape With Maids Tending The Flock 1720s Very tired with flaking paintA gentle British pastoral scene depicting three women tending to their flock. The artist, Charles Leslie (1839 1886) has selected a time of the day when the sun is low and the shadows are long. Its a painting to lose yourself into. Charles Leslie was a member of the Williams family of painters who were widely known during the 19th century. His grandfather, Edward Williams (17811855), was an accomplished landscape painter and all six of his sons became