R.B. Higgins - Original Oil Painting - Ballyalton Downpatrick Co Down -1984 Irish Art

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A large original oil on canvas by the County Down landscape painter Robert Bertie (R.B.) Higgins (b. 1943), titled on the reverse "Ballyalton, Downpatrick, Co. Down" and dated 1984.
A beautifully detailed Lecale scene, painted in Higgins's finest manner. A rain-washed woodland track runs through the foreground, its puddles catching the light of a vast summer sky banked with cumulus cloud. A woman and child drive their sheep along the lane, while figures gather around a smoking campfire at the edge of the trees. Beyond, a river winds away into a hazy, sunlit distance framed by tall woodland. It's a calm, luminous picture of the Co. Down countryside, full of incidental detail that rewards close looking.

The artist: R.B. Higgins was born in County Down in 1943 and is known for his Irish landscapes in oil and watercolour, and for his porcelain commissions for Belleek Pottery. His work has sold at Whyte's in Dublin and Ross's in Belfast.

Details:

Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right
Titled, signed and dated in pencil on the reverse: "Ballyalton, Downpatrick, Co. Down — by R B Higgins 1984"
Ballyalton is a townland in the parish of Ballee, just east of Downpatrick
Presented in an ornate gilt swept frame

Size framed approx. 84 × 61cm

Condition: the canvas is in very good condition, clean, with no tears, holes or flaking. The frame has some losses to the gilt and gesso, mainly to the left side, the bottom rail and one corner, which are easily touched in or could be reframed.

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Delivery: carefully packed and couriered within the UK. Collection welcome from Belfast or Dublin.

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