Hugo Mieth, Five Minutes Rest Belgium Haslbauer has captured this vibrant

Haslbauer has captured this vibrant rural farmyard on a bright Summer’s day and it feels alive with activity

Joan Rockingham

Cox was a prominent member of the ’Birmingham School’ and he painted in a stripped-down style by removing details and employing generalisations

The painting is signed on the right and housed within a later frame

which encouraged others to explore new techniques and approaches

Hugo Mieth, Five Minutes Rest Belgium Haslbauer has captured this vibrantAn early 20th century oil on canvas depicting a seated gentleman reading a newspaper while two ladies look on from a distance. We can only wonder what the story is here perhaps theyre wondering who he is. The artist, Hugo Mieth (1865 1930), trained at the Academy in Dresden under Wilhelm Ferdinand Pauwels (1830 1904) and later at the illustrious Acadmie Julian in Paris. Like many academy trained painters from this period, Mieth had the best of both