Hugo Mieth, Five Minutes Rest Belgium Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size:

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 35½” x 25½” / 90cm x 65cmYear of creation: c

Size including frame 30⅔” x 18” / 78cm x 46cm

Joan Rockingham

1940Provenance: DenmarkCondition: Artwork in fine condition and recently cleaned

Hugo Mieth, Five Minutes Rest Belgium Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size:An 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