A Scottish landscape oil on canvas c1867 depicting highland cattle housed in a gilt Victorian frame by the well listed British artist Aster Richard Chilton Corbould (1811-1882).

Artist: Aster Richard Chilton Corbould (1811-1882)

Oil on canvas

Housed in gilt Victorian frame

Excellent condition.

Frame dimensions 86x61cm.

£2000

Aster Richard Chilton Corbould was born at Easton, Suffolk on 17 September 1811 and baptised both at St George's, Bloomsbury and at Easton, son of Thomas Richard Corbould (1783-1865), of the Bank of England, and his wife Mary née Chilton (1789-1853), who married at Ufford, Suffolk on 3 September 1810, Aster's uncle was Henry Corbould (1787-9 December 1844). Aster was a celebrated painter of sporting animals and portraits and exhibited 35 works at the Royal Academy, 32 at the British Institute and forty-eight at Suffolk Street Galleries between 1842 and 1877. Aster was also a lithographer and amongst his patrons was the Earl and Countess of Rosshire. He married at Claygate, Surrey on 27 April 1848, Elizabeth Royall Ker, who died 15 January 1914, aged 87. Aster Richard Chilton Corbould died at his residence, 11 Phillimore Terrace, Kensington on 31 October 1882 and buried at Hampstead. They had six children. At the Suffolk Fine Arts Association exhibition at Ipswich in 1850 was exhibited 'Deer Stalkers in the Highlands' which was labelled A R C Corbould and another 'Park with Fallow Deer' by Aster R C Corbould. In the same exhibition, exhibit No. 48, 'Jack-in-the-Box' by A. Corbould was painted by Alfred Hitchens Corbould.