Wayside Gossips, oil on canvas by George Morland, 1763-1804, from a British family of artists. Morland painted animals and rustic scenes and was often in financial trouble through living beyond his means.
This painting is in a private collection.
Highland Music, painted in 1829 and exhibited in 1830, oil on mahogany by Sir Henry Landseer, British, 1802-1873. The piper has a varied audience. Some enjoy the evening enough to join in.
Landseer painted this oil at his Highland retreat in Glen Freshie near Braemar, Scotland. It was presented to Tate Britain in 1847 by Robert Vernon.
Gnome Watching Railway Train oil on canvas by Carl Spitzweg, 1808-1885, German Romanticist painter and poet.
Spitzweg’s early paintings were of serious subjects but, as he grew older, his work took on a whimsical quality. If there is anyone more delightful, athousandwinds has no idea who it is.
Starfishpaws suggested The Poor Poet needed a cat as indeed he does, but Spitzweg cats are hard to find. We give him a gnome instead.
From Mathias Holtzwart's Emblematum Tyrocinia (1581):
Nature itself by example shows us, there is
Nothing better than to hide in one's own house.
We see how the tortoise creeps on the earth and
Maintains and upholds its own house on its back.
It never leaves this house, while it feeds on heaven's air,
And it carries the sweet burden on top of its body.
Thus is that man happy, who knows how to use sparingly what he has acquired,
And who cares nothing for others, so that he may live for himself.
Natura exemplo nobis ipsa indicat, esse
Nil melius, propria quam latitare domo.
Cernimus ut terris serpat testudo, suamque
Conseruet tergo sustineatque domum.
Deserit hanc nunquam, coeli dum uescitur aura,
Dulceque subiecto corpore gestat onus,
Sic felix, partis qui nouit parcere rebus,
Nilque alios curat, uiuat ut ipse sibi.
Source:
A Thousand Winds
http://athousandwinds.tumblr.com/page/16
Eastman Johnson, Old Man Seated
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