Irish Cottage is an astute observation of a rural farming community and the working houses which serve the farms. There is a partially obscured couple in the foreground wearing country attire, Carel Weight is quoted as saying: ‘Even when I paint a landscape out of doors, and I say I’m not going to put any figures in; when I get back to the studio I always paint in figures; it would be too lonely without people.’
About Carel Weight
 Irish Cottage is an astute observation of a rural farming community and the working houses which serve the farms. There is a partially obscured couple in the foreground wearing country attire, Carel Weight is quoted as saying: Even when I paint a landscape out of doors, and I say I’m not going to put any figures in; when I get back to the studio I always paint in figures; it would be too lonely without people.
