DeBreanski was a landscape painter and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1872-1890 and Suffolk Street Exhibition Salon. He specialized in Welsh and Scottish mountain scenery, especially highland lochs at sunset. He also painted views on the Thames.

During the late 19 th C., commensurate with the “Belle Époque” or “Gilded Age” from Circa 1870-1914, there was a great demand for very pleasant, serene landscape paintings by avid collectors to fill their private salons. This was a reflection of the social parvenu to cause celebrity and/or nobility by the leading industrialists and financiers. As in all such adventures, the passion of connoisseurship was born into the American culture by the social leaders.

This particular scene on the Thames is an exceptional example of the bucolic nature of the English countryside, as opposed to the more rugged highland scenes of Scotland , and is presented in the original pickled/gilded antique frame, which accentuates the color contrasts.