Artwork
Landscape with Cornfield and Windmill
Landscape with Cornfield and Windmill is a drawing by the Impressionist artist Claude Hayes. It dates from 1852 and is held in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. This watercolour drawing depicts a serene rural landscape.
About this work
Overview
This watercolour drawing depicts a serene rural landscape.
Subject & Meaning
The scene features a windmill on a grassy hill, surrounded by fields of golden corn, with a figure in a dark coat and red hat seated on a low stone wall in the foreground.
Technique & Style
Executed in loose, rapid brushstrokes, the drawing employs a muted colour palette of earthy browns, pale greens, and distant blues, capturing a fleeting impression of the natural world.
Artist & collection
Artist
Claude Hayes RI was a British and Irish artist who specialised in landscape painting; he is especially remembered for his landscape watercolours, though he also painted many oils in the earlier part of his career.
Sussex Downs
Watercolour in album of 51 drawings and watercolours by James Duffield Harding
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Mountains and Cattle
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Landscape
South Downs