Charles Leickert’s landscape paintings are always composed of various set pieces and produced in the studio. In this painting, he combines a redbrick complex perched on a river with a broad path on which neighbours are chatting and an open gate that acts as a customs barrier.
Meanwhile, the right side of the picture provides a view of the river landscape stretching out to a larger city on the horizon. The artist is not interested in betraying the location: he presents an atmospheric panorama tha...