British landscape Dialogue at lunchtime 18th century Oil painting on wood ^Sale

Signed lower right - Julius Caesar Ibbetson (1759 – 1817). The majority of Ibbetson’s Lakeland scenes were painted to order after he had moved away to Yorkshire, and therefore lack the immediacy of the present canvas. This work is painted, with his own, inimitably pleasing style. Antique oil painting on wood panel.
Size app.: 43 x 37.5 cm (16.9 x 14.8 in) unframed. Very Good condition, with only wear along edges. Painted in oils on solid mahogany panel (no worm traces). Please study good resolution images for overall cosmetic condition. In person actual painting may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Weight of app. 1.2 kg kg is going to measure some 3 kg volume weight packed for shipment.
Julius Caesar Ibbetson (1759 – 1817), was a British 18th-century landscape and watercolor painter. Ibbetson was apprenticed to John Fletcher, a ship painter in Hull, from 1772 to 1777. He then moved to London, where for the next ten years he was primarily a picture restorer for a Clarke of Leicester Fields. In 1785, Ibbetson began exhibiting at the Royal Academy with View of North Fleet.Through the efforts of Captain William Baillie in 1787, Ibbetson was made draftsman to Colonel Charles Cathcart on the first British embassy to Peking (Beijing); he made many watercolor drawings of the animals and plants on the journey. After a visit to the Isle of Wight in 1790, he began painting shipwrecks and smugglers. The next 14 years of his life were the most settled. Benjamin West described Ibbetson as the "Berchem of England" in recognition of his debt to the Dutch 17th century landscape painters.