JAMES EDWIN MEADOWS Signed Oil on Canvas, ‘Children Playing by a Cottage’, signature to lower right reads ‘MEADOWS’, plaque to center of piece reads ‘JAMES EDWIN MEADOWS, CHILDREN PLAYING BY A COTTAGE, 1828 - 1888’, label to reverse reads ‘KURT E. SCHON, LTD. DEALERS IN FINE ART’, comes with provenance, subject an English countryside with children playing by the roadside with cottage to the background, measures 42 x 30 inches, window measures 34 7/8 x 22 3/4 inches, ornate gilt wooden frame, frame comes with lighting fixture, surface wear to frame, professionally framed, exposed canvas to reverse, not examined out of frame, James Edwin Meadows was a London artist who painted landscapes and a number of marine subjects. He was one of three sons who belonged to a painting family headed by James Meadows Snr., a highly esteemed marine artist. James Edwin exhibited twenty-six works at the Royal Academy between 1854 and 1872 as well as at the British Institute. Meadows’ works are easily distinguishable with his conception of the British landscape