Lot 575: J. F. Slater Oil Painting on Board Two Horses and a Caravan 73x55cm

A late 19th or early 20th-century oil painting on board by J. F. Slater, depicting two heavy horses pulling a wooden traveler’s wagon along a rural track. The composition features a man in a green coat and hat walking beside the vardo, which is fitted with a prominent metal chimney. The work is executed in an impressionistic style with heavy impasto throughout the horses’ coats and the foreground track. The painting is housed in a gilt-wood frame with a broad cream-coloured mount. The work is signed in the lower right corner in dark pigment J F Slater.