JAMES FAED JNR (1857-1920)SPRINGTIME AT SOUTHWICKOil on canvasSigned and dated May 1896 (lower right) and inscribed on a label on the reverse86 x 111cm (33¾ x 43½ in.)Provenance:The MacTaggart-Stewart family, Southwick Estate Taken to Ardwell House by Sir Edward Orde MacTaggart upon the sale of Southwick in the 1920sInherited and brought to Rawdon by Peter SnowdenCatalogue Note: It is believed that the present picture depicts the Darsalloch Burn discharging into the Solway Firth. By family repute it was commissioned by his Great-Great grandfather, Mark MacTaggart-Stewart who had a great affinity to the Southwick Estate in Ayrshire and prided himself on his herd of cattle in the parkland. The Estate was sold in the General Strike of 1926 finding running two scottish estates.The painting is the largest of three paintings all in the same style and frame of the Southwick Estate. One is retained in Scotland, the other has been kept by the vendor and this is the largest of the three and depicts Southwick House in the background.Catalogue Note:材质_1: Oil on canvas