The Old Mill at Lower Slaughter | Fred Yates Oil Painting

A grand Fred Yates Oil Painting of the Cotswold Mill at Lower Slaughter, just outside Bourton on the Water. Fred has used a combination of Rich Umber, black and white highlights to create strong composition that is well painted. A super Cotswold scene painted as an Oil on Board by Fred Yates - Circa the mid 1970’s. Fred was known to have attend the Guiting Power Arts Festival from 1974 to 1977 and could have painted this scene of Lower Slaughter Mill sometime in that period as the villages are only 7 miles apart.

Three scenes of this mill by Fred Yates are known to exist – This splendid warm brown version, the second (a later version) now in the Rastall private collection with a hand painted frame and the third was sold by Christie’s London on 15th July 1998 (£253) with the description The Mill, Lower Slaughter, but the sizes do not match the other two paintings. This painting was given to it’s previous owner by Fred and it stayed with the family until we were fortunate enough to acquire it.

Cotswold Fred Yates paintings are difficult to source due to the short periods (just visiting!) during which he painted the area, compared to his time living and painting in Cornwall and France.

Reference Number: 059FY