# Bright Scene of Cattle near Stream

- By: Edward Mitchell Bannister (born St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1828-died Providence, RI 1901)
- Date: n.d.
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 22 1/4 x 36 1/4 in. (56.5 x 92.1 cm.)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Melvin and H. Alan Frank from the Frank Family Collection
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=937)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/2221529cfd7acdff4b93df9278cf197f.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Although he never traveled abroad, Edward Bannister was influenced by nineteenth-century French landscape paintings from the Barbizon school. The Barbizon artists rejected the position held by the conservative French Academy, which did not consider landscape painting a noteworthy facet of art. In Bright Scene of Cattle near Stream, Bannister painted a peaceful view of three cattle grazing in a lush field, celebrating the beauty and majesty of nature in bucolic settings.