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"Winter" by Edwin Douglas depicting a shepherd dispensing turnips to his flock in the snow. The same scene at a different season is illustrated below. |
This website, created by Valerie Martin, contains scenes from her home village of Findon, West Sussex, U.K.
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"Winter" by Edwin Douglas depicting a shepherd dispensing turnips to his flock in the snow. The same scene at a different season is illustrated below. |
MEN OF FEW POSSESSIONS
Copyright Valerie Martin 2000
When Edwin Douglas came to live in Findon in West Sussex it gave him an opportunity to study the way of life of
shepherds on the South Downs around the village as the following pictures I have collected show.The painting below is of a Southdown flock gathered at sunset at the tail of a farm cart from which fodder is being shovelled for supper. The canvas is happy, reproduced in half-light.
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In 1885 Edwin Douglas painted a small study of "Evening on the South Downs" showing a shepherd feeding his flock. |
Here is a print reproduction of a similar scene......
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Later when he was living in Findon in 1894 it was completed and entitled "Feeding the Hungry" and exhibited at the Royal Academy.
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"The First Sacrifice — and Abel took a firstling of the flock" painted by Edwin Douglas in 1889 and exhibited at the Royal Academy in that year. |
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"Maternal Anxiety" — another scene on the South Downs painted in Findon in 1896 by Edwin Douglas and exhibited at the Victorian Era Exhibition, London. |
In the above picture the farm worker is feeding sheep and Highland Cattle on the Downs at Findon. This painting was exhibited at the Victorian Era Exhibition in 1897.
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"He Was a Man of Few Possessions" painted in Findon by Edwin Douglas. |
 Painted in 1913 by Edwin Douglas, the year before he died. |
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In February 2002, "Highland Sheep in Mountainous Landscape" came under the auctioneer's hammer at Peter Wilson Fine Art Auctioneers in Nantwich Cheshire. It was in its original gilt frame and was expected to reach between £5,500-£6,500.
The painting was in its original gilt frame.
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This is Findon — www.findonvillage.com is a continually growing record created by Valerie Martin exclusively for documenting life in Findon.
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E-mail: valeriemartin@findonvillage.com |
