Bidspirit auction | John Dawson, Large Portrait of

John Dawson, Large Portrait of a Mother and Son with a Dog, Oil on Canvas - This large-scale oil on canvas painting portrays a seated woman and young boy in a pastoral landscape at sunset. The subjects are dressed in Regency-style attire, with the woman draped in a vibrant red cloak and the child in a dark red velvet suit. They are accompanied by a large black and white dog wearing a wide brass collar with a hanging padlock detail. The background features a Neoclassical architectural element to the left and a expansive vista of rolling hills and a body of water under a late afternoon sky. The composition is executed in a style evocative of early 19th-century British portraiture. In the lower left corner, there is a signature painted in orange-brown cursive script reading John Dawson. The work is mounted on a modern wooden stretcher and housed in a deep, ornate gilt wood and composition frame. The frame is decorated with multiple tiers of molding, including a foliate inner border and large floral and shell-form ornaments at each corner. The reverse of the frame is finished in black paint. A brass picture light is attached to the top of the frame, with its wiring secured to the verso using several pieces of gray adhesive tape.Width: 40 inchesHeight: 48 1/2 inchesDepth: 4 1/4 inches.