Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Charles Cooper Henderson - Mail Coaches on the Road- the Louth-London Royal Mail progressing at Speed - Google Art Project.jpg

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Original – Mail Coach on the Road- the Louth-London Royal Mail progressing at Speed, 1828

Reason: Charles Cooper Henderson was British painter of horses and coaches. The painting depicts a Mail coach on the road- the Louth-London Royal Mail. A team of men in top hats driving the mail coach on the road with whips in their hands. 32,4 cm (12.76 in) x Width: 52,7 cm (20.75 in); between 1820 and 1830, oil on canvas. In the Yale Center for British Art. ^{^{It is all Sca's fault, by the way. He started this with:what was there before the Fed-ex thing.}}
Articles in which this image appears: Charles Cooper Henderson
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Culture and lifestyle perhaps
Creator: Charles Cooper Henderson

Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 14:31, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - though I'm curious as to what the pattern in the sky is. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:33, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

We call them clouds, the usual sky pattern over London. Is it different elsewhere? ;) SchroCat (talk) 23:47, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Take a closer look. Some have almost diagonal lines, some have vertical lines... — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:58, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
^{Brushwork? Hafspajen (talk) 00:15, 4 March 2015 (UTC)}[reply]

^{Or the texture of the canvas, perhaps? If the darker clouds have more paint applied to them, that would make sense... just I've seen something similar with a photograph I took before. Nobody ever brought it up at FPC, but... — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:42, 4 March 2015 (UTC)}[reply]

Support - SchroCat (talk) 23:47, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Very nice, sufficient EV. SagaciousPhil - Chat 12:53, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Jobas (talk) 01:03, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --PetarM (talk) 16:20, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Charles Cooper Henderson - Mail Coaches on the Road- the Louth-London Royal Mail progressing at Speed - Google Art Project.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:38, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]