Large Oil Painting of a Shepherd c.1950

Large Dutch painting in oil on canvas of a shepherd and his flock c.1950. On a gloomy day an elderly shepherd carrying a long staff and wearing clogs drives his flock away from us along a track between fields with standing water in the ditches and ruts. His dog walks along side the flock to the right hand side. A single sheep turns round to look back at us. Well painted in oil on an unusually heavy woven canvas, the texture of the cloth showing through paint. Large signature across the lower right hand corner. Presented unframed on a the original wooden stretcher. Good condition.