Soft Landscape with Trees and Ruins, Antique Oil on Linen Painting apple shaped The larger ship on the

The larger ship on the front I believe is a Blackwall Frigate

I might just pin it straight to the wall from the top corners of the linen

I keep thinking that if we could see to the figure connected to the hand at left

and the tiny rose buds extending from the E and E and S

wonderfully evocative--and I think the forms of those capital letters

Soft Landscape with Trees and Ruins, Antique Oil on Linen Painting apple shaped The larger ship on theNot a great masterpiece, but there is a very lovely softness and atmospheric ness (and an Arts & Crafts sort of feeling, too) about this oil on linen painting, which kept me returning to it when recently roaming around an antique shop in Maine, and compelled me to walk out the door with it! Quite serene, but I think one could also read a certain drama or implied narrative, with these green trees rising up from old brick ruins, like symbols of rebirth