British Art: March 2011

This is a bust of the artist’s only daughter, Muriel, aged four. It is cast in gilt bronze and set on a marble base. http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/online/exhibitions/childhood/childhood.asp

[1831 engraving of a young Venetian woman, aged 23, depicted before and after contracting cholera. Photograph: Wellcome Images] http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/mar/27/dirt-filthy-reality-wellcome-collection http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/dirt-grime-and-reason-2247592.html#

http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=267&page=1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Holl
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jholl.htm

Holloway collection.

oil on canvas
60 x 83"
painted 1878

The painting made Holl's reputation when it was exhibted at the RA in the same year and he was subsequently elected an ARA. Holl visited Newgate and the Governor became a friend. The section painted was called the Cage where prisoners on trial were allowed at certain times to see their friends. Holl wrote it moved him to see prisoners of all sorts awaiting the results of their trials.

Holl himself died of heart disease at the early age of 43.
In the same year as this painting, 1878, he began painting portraits which mt with a lot of success. He painted many famous people such as the Price of Wales, Gladstone etc. His range of subjects is impressive.

oil on canvas
30 x 20"

fl. 1873 - 1889

oil on board
12 x 9"

1923
oil on canvas
14 x 10"

'73
oil on canvas
25 x 20.5"

from the brilliant Jeremy Paxman series

oil on panel
17 x 22"

When an etching has been made, prints are made from the metal block. Very often these are not numbered. However, for collectors' items there is often a fixed number, say 200, and the individual copies are numbered, very often in the form 1/200, and so forth. Sometimes the block is then destroyed and cannot be used again.
Sometimes, however, the block is kept and used again. If this happens there should be a clear indication that the 'print run' is that of a re-use or to use the technical term, a re-strike. One common way of doing this is to use Roman numerals for the re-strike.

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_a_restrike_etching#ixzz1HAMaanow

Watercolour, 14 x 7.5 inches (35.56 cm x 19.05 cm). Private collection, Canada. This watercolour appears to be a sketch painted on site that Thomas Seddon likely used to paint the oil-on-canvas painting titled View on the Nile.

http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/seddon/index.html

Watercolour and oil on paper, 29 3/4 x 40 1/2 inches. Forbes Magazine Collection

Visions of the harem
Of all the British artists who went east in the 19th century, for Ahdaf Soueif, only John Frederick Lewis looked beyond colonial stereotypes to capture its true spirit. Cairo gave him the colours, light and architecture to become a great painter.
includes gallery
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jul/05/art.exhibition

Signed and Dated 1931 Oil on Canvas 24 x 30 inches / 61 x 76.2 cms Literature : Frank Moss Bennett (1874-1952) The Forgotten Artist by M. Son, 2006, p 24

http://www.burlington.co.uk/original-paintings/frank-moss-bennett-late-but-welcome-25009.html

[Won't you come with me?]
Price Realized £3,500
signed and dated 'F M Bennett 1929' (lower left)
oil on canvas
10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.5 cm.)

[An excuse for a glass]
Price Realized £3,500
signed and dated 'F M Bennett 1924' (lower right)
oil on canvas
10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.5 cm.)

http://www.artiquesroadshow.com/Frank_moss_bennett.htm
http://www.fada.com/browse_by_artist.html?gallery_no=2&artist=5868&bio=1

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