A charming C19th watercolour depicting a vividly coloured scarlet macaw perched on a wooden stand, titled 'Mother Faux’s Macaw'. The work is finely rendered with Nesfield’s characteristic precision and sensitivity to natural colour.
 
Though best remembered today as one of Victorian England’s foremost landscape architects, William Andrews Nesfield was also a highly accomplished painter and draughtsman. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and produced numerous studies of birds, plants and landscape details for his patrons at Farnley Hall in Yorkshire, this lively macaw study among them.
 
Presented in a gilt frame with a double mount, and retaining the original David Ker Fine Art, London label on the reverse.
 
Measurements (framed):
46.5 × 37 cm
 
Provenance: David Ker Fine Art, 85 Bourne Street, London SW1