"Manchester sitting on Terrace in Autumn, 1854" 
Guido Hammer (German, 1821-1898)
Oil on canvas
25 1/2 x 29 1/2 (30 x 34 frame) inches
Signed lower right Guido Hammer and dated 1854. 

On the back a document from Jules Hardy - Conseil en Gestion fiscale et Antiquariat.
Edmund Guido Hammer (Germany, 1821-1898) was a German painter and draftsman. He attended the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and from 1842, Hammer apprenticed in Julius Hübner's studio.  
 
As a passionate hunter, he was connected to the Dresden Heath and therefore was inspired to become a painter of animal subjects. He traveled on foot to Trieste, Venice, Milan, across Lake Garda, and made repeated trips to Munich, into the forests of Saxony, Bohemia, Silesia and, also, into the Tyrolean mountains.  In 1866 he went to Constantinople.  
 
His fresh, naturalistic animal and hunting pictures have always been very well received. The Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden owns his paintings Spotted Greyhound (1852) and Wild Boar with Piglets, Held by a Dog (1860).  He also drew numerous illustrations for the magazines Die Gartenlaube and the Leipziger Illustrirte Zeitung. He wrote attractive descriptions for these and for his “Hubertusbildern”, Album für Jäger und Jagdfreunde (2nd edition, Glog. 1877).  His home was at Marienallee 4 on the southern edge of the heath. He is buried in the St. Pauli cemetery.
 
Works by the artist are owned by the Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden, among other institutions including the Philadelphia Museum of Art