About this objectThe artist painted this work in the same year he was appointed Professor of Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. It was around this time that Steer gradually began to move away from French Impressionism and stopped showing his more radical works.
Steer described his early explorations in a different style from 1893 onwards as experimentation in ‘the classical machinery of landscape composition.’ This painting is typical of this transitional period. Its pastoral subject matter shows the influence of landscape artists such as J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851) and Claude Lorrain (1600-1682).
