A rather lovely oil on canvas depicting a pair of calves in a barn by William Barr.
\nIt is in very good condition, signed lower left and housed in a gilt wood frame.
\nIn his early career William Barr painted several pictures featuring calves and cows and were likely painted in the Scottish highlands.
\nThe canvas itself measures 35cm X 48cm<\/p>\n
William Barr (26 April 1867\u201325 February 1933, Glasgow, Scotland) began his art studies as a student at the Paisley School of Art and Design, where he earned art teachers and art masters certificates.
\nHe went on to the Glasgow School of Art (1895\u201398), South Kensington School of Art in London and Acad\u00e9mie Julian in Paris (1904). He taught at the Paisley School of Art for ten years before moving to San Francisco, California, in 1915 to make a living as an artist painting the landscapes of California along with portraits and genre scenes.
\nHe painted mainly en plein air landscapes of California until his death on 25 February 1933.
\nHe was married to Elizabeth Stevenson Smith and had two children, Margaret and Ann.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[15,48,102],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-10791","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-all","product_cat-art","product_cat-sold","first","outofstock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple","wcspt-has-gallery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/janeshortantiques.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product\/10791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/janeshortantiques.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/janeshortantiques.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janeshortantiques.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janeshortantiques.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/janeshortantiques.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janeshortantiques.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_brand&post=10791"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janeshortantiques.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_cat&post=10791"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janeshortantiques.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=10791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}