PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTON

FREDERICK WILLIAM JACKSON (BRITISH 1859-1918)
A Country Estate
signed F.W. JACKSON (lower left)
oil on board
22.5 x 27 cm

Frederick William Jackson was born in 1859 in Middleton, Greater Manchester and was one of three brothers. From an early age Jackson became interested in painting, often going on sketching trips with his friend and future architect Edgar Wood. After leaving school he studied at Oldham School of Art where his teacher John Houghton Hague introduced Jackson to the Manchester School. The group were greatly influenced by the French artist's colony at Barbizon and Jackson's involvement during this period helped shape his own artistic style. Members of the Manchester School embraced the Barbizon School's rejection of the traditional constraints of Neo-Classicism and Romanticism in favour of studying nature and contemporary life in order to create a more immediate and painterly style.