Frederick Weekes (1833-1920)
The Haunted Glen, the Intruder
£4,500
J W Lea
HM Raven
Mrs Kate Holiday (the artist's sister)
Raven was the son of the Reverend Thomas Raven, a talented amateur painter in the manner of Constable and Old Crome. He was devout, and whilst his early paintings were Pre-Raphaelite, and are much celebrated today, his later work had a mystical character. This visionary sketch was gifted to a Tractarian friend, John Walter Lea (1827-1888). It is freighted with atmosphere. A fiery sun sets in a turbulent sky above a meadow, where a flock of sheep graze around an ancient Dartmoor Cross. These were put up across the bleak moor by monks to keep travellers from getting lost.
