Saturday, October 9, 2010

John Charlton - Bad news for the camp




Price Realized £7,050

stamped with initials (on stretcher); and with fragmentary label (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
48 x 72 in. (122 x 183 cm.)

signed with initials and dated
'JC/1892' (lower right).



1849-1917

John Charlton was born in Bamburgh, Northumberland and studied at the Newcastle School of Art and at South Kensington. A painter of sporting subjects and battles, he increasingly turned to painting military subjects. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Grosvenor Gallery and the New Gallery.

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