An extensive Meadow Landscape on a Summer's Day

As a nephew of the portrait painter George Sheffield (fl. 1825-1835), Sheffield Jun. took his first lessons from his uncle. When his family moved to Warrington he studied under Sir Samuel Luke Fildes, R.A. (1844-1927) and at Manchester he was apprenticed to a printer and studied at the School of Art. Sheffield was at sea for a number of years and on settling in Bettws-y-Coed in 1861 he concentrated on landscape and marine painting. As both an oil and watercolour painter, Sheffield was elected member of the Manchester Academy and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1873-1878.
The present watercolour and the following lot were executed when Sheffield lived in Bettws-y-Coed and most probably depict Welsh views.