Friday, April 30, 2010

Lunch time in the City 1908




Not much changes really - except the hats!

Charles Haigh Wood



[A New Poem]

signed and dated 'C.HAIGH WOOD.90.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
22½ x 25¾ in.
Price Realized £6,000

http://www.artnet.com/artist/658856/charles-haigh-wood.html
including works currently for sale

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Haynes King - The love letter




signed and dated 'HKing 1878' (lower right)
oil on canvas
20 5/8 x 16½ in.
Price Realized £16,800

William Clarke Wontner - Valeria




signed 'W.Wontner' (lower left)
oil on canvas
25 x 21 in.
Price Realized £84,000
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William Clarke Wontner was a portrait and classical subject painter, whose ideal heads embody the neo-classical tradition that he and fellow artist John William Godward (1861-1881) reconfigured for late 19th and early 20th Century tastes. Taking inspiration from artistic progenitors Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Frederic, Lord Leighton, they dispensed with dense detail, and instead set their models against simple marble backgrounds, alluding to contemporary ideals of style whilst upholding classical precepts of beauty

Robert Fowler - The Dance of Salome



signed with monogram and dated '1885' (lower right) and further signed and inscribed ''Dance of Salome'/by Robert Fowler' (on an old label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas
48 5/8 x 72¾ in.
Price Realized £45,600
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=4827017&sid=069e7a5c-1b80-4e19-a40a-23175dcc26a3

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Harry Mitton Wilson




[The Girl in the Pink Dress (The Artist's Wife), on Hastings Beach]
1877-1923
signed 'H M WILSON' (lower right) and further inscribed 'HASTINGS BEACH/1905/The girl in the pink dress/(The Artist's Wife)'
oil on canvas
10 x 16 in.

http://www.artnet.com/artist/554844/harry-mitton-wilson.html

http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/Harry-Mitten-Wilson/An-Afternoon-Nap.html

George Hillyard Swinstead - Playing in the waves




signed and dated 'Geo.Swinstead/1879' (lower left)
oil on canvas
28 1/8 x 41 in.
Price Realized £11,400

Alfred Stannard - A coastal scene with fisherfolk in the foreground



signed and dated 'A Stannard/1856' (lower right) and with inscription 'A. Stannard 1856./Bought at Brightwells Sale/1869' (on an old label attached to the stretcher)
oil on canvas
10 1/8 x 13 1/8 in.
Price Realized £8,400

Alfred Stannard's painting of the Yarmouth coast includes a view of Yarmouth jetty with Nelson's Column visible in the distance. Stannard has foreshortened the view to show the Column on the South Denes. It was erected in 1819, as a monument to Norfolk born Admiral Lord Nelson, and pre-dates the column in Trafalgar Square by twenty-four years.

The Yarmouth coast was frequently depicted by the artists of the Norwich School and Stannard's son, Alfred George Stannard is known to have painted almost exactly the same subject.

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

David James - A flowing sea




signed and dated 'D. James 96' (lower right) and signed, inscribed and dated 'A Flowing Sea. D. James 96' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
25 x 50 in.
Price Realized £25,200

Lucy Elizabeth Kemp-Welch - Harvesting




signed and dated 'L.Kemp-Welch/1919' (lower left)
oil on canvas
16 1/8 x 20 1/8 in.
Price Realized £12,000

Lucy Kemp-Welch was the most prominent pupil of Hubert von Herkomer at his art school in Bushey. The school closed in 1904 but was subsequently reconfigured as The Kemp Welch School of Animal Painting. Kemp-Welch became the first president of the Society of Animal Painters.

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(Sir) John Alfred Arnesby Brown - four paintings













[Sheep and pine trees]
signed 'ARNESBY BROWN.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
28 x 35 7/8 in.
Price Realized £10,800

[The Cross Roads]
signed 'Arnesby Brown.' (lower left) and further signed 'Arnesby Brown' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
24 7/8 x 30 1/8 in.
Price Realized £27,600
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=7&intObjectID=4826979&sid=069e7a5c-1b80-4e19-a40a-23175dcc26a3


[Cows grazing on a marsh]
signed 'Arnesby Brown.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
14 x 17 7/8 in.
Price Realized £13,200


[A herd of cows crossing a marsh]
signed 'Arnesby Brown.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
14¼ x 17 in.
Price Realized £5,880
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Terrick John Williams




[On the beach, St. Ives, Cornwall]
signed and dated 'Terrick Williams 1904.' (lower right) and further signed, inscribed and dated 'On the beach. St Ives Cornwall, by Terrick Williams/Art Club Studios/Blackheath/London SE./1904' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
18 x 24 in.
Price Realized £16,800

Terrick Williams studied both in Antwerp with Verlat and at the Academie Julian in Paris. Many of his early subjects were of the coastal harbours of northern France, but by the 1890s Williams was a regular visitor to St Ives. Until 1902 he was the drawing master at the Royal Military Academy in Woolich, after which time he devoted himself totally to his painting and travelled extensively. He was elected president of the Royal Institute in 1933.

Sidney Richard Percy - Loch Tay, Perthshire




signed and dated 'S R Percy.74' (lower left)
oil on canvas
9 1/8 x 15 in.
Price Realized £12,000
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Sidney Richard Percy Williams, known as Sidney Richard Percy, was the second-youngest son of the landscape artist Edward Williams (1781-1855) and one of six brothers, all of whom were accomplished and successful painters

Monday, April 26, 2010

En plein air



[Going to School - Jules Bastien Lepage 1882]
http://nicepaintings.org/works/87664
Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums


En plein air is a French expression which means "in the open air", and is particularly used to describe the act of painting outdoors.

Before 1830 this was a difficult physical process. The artist had to carry their easel, stool, paints, pots and solvents which before the introduction of the paint in a tube, had to be mixed outdoors. Previously, each painter made their own paints by grinding and mixing dry pigment powders with linseed oil.

It was during this period that the "Box Easel", typically known as the French Box Easel, was invented. It is uncertain who developed it first, but these highly portable easels, with telescopic legs and built-in paint box and palette.

http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=g&p=a&a=i&ID=980

Oliver Rhys - A Venetian Fruit Seller



signed and dated 'Oliver Rhys./1889.' (lower right) and further signed and inscribed 'A.VENETIAN.FRUIT.SELLER./O.RHYS.' (on an old label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas
30 3/8 x 20½ in.
Price Realized £15,600

Frank Moss Bennett - A Good Vintage



signed and dated 'F.M.Bennett/1930' (lower left)
oil on canvas
20 x 15 in.
Price Realized £12,000

Frederick Daniel Hardy - The Tinder Box



signed 'F D Hardy' (lower right)
oil on canvas
9¾ x 12¾ in.
Price Realized £4,800

William Hughes - Flowers, fruit, a bullfinch and its nest




1842-1901
signed and dated 'WH[in monogram]ughes 1868'
oil on panel
30 x 24¾ in.
Price Realized £20,400

William Hughes was a still life painter. He was a pupil of George Lance and W.H. Hunt and lived in London and Brighton, England. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, the British Institution, the Society of British Artists at Suffolk Street and the Grosvenor Gallery. Best known for his nature scenes, he was commissioned to paint a set of five large bird pictures for the hall of Lord Calthorpe's house in Grosvenor Square.

Rex Whistler




1905-1944
signed 'Rex Whistler' (lower right) and further signed and inscribed '"The Elders."/Rex Whistler./20 Fitzroy Street./W.1.' (on an old label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas board, in the original hand painted frame
8 5/8 x 16 in.
Price Realized £5,760

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William J. Webbe - The Reaper and the Lily




signed with initials (lower left) and further signed and inscribed 'No. 1 The Reaper and the Lily/W.J.Webbe./Niton, Isle of Wight.' (on an old label attached to the reverse) and signed and inscribed 'W.J Webb Niton/Isle of Wight (on the reverse of the panel)
oil on panel
14 x 7½ in.
Price Realized £12,000

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William Henry Gore -




[In Disgrace]

signed 'W. HENRY GORE' (lower left) and further signed and inscribed 'No.2 In Disgrace W Henry Gore 30 Gt Russell St London WC' (on a label adhered to the reverse)
oil on canvas
30 x 20 in.
Price Realized £42,000

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John Callcott Horsley - Showing a Preference




signed and dated 'J.C.Horsley./1860' (lower left) and further signed and inscribed 'J.C.Horsley.A.R.A/No. 1' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
36 x 28 in.
Price Realized £299,200

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Leonard Campbell Taylor - Looking into the pantry



signed 'L.Campbell Taylor' (lower left) and further signed and inscribed 'L Campbell Taylor Esq ARA/63 Belsize Park Road' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
36 x 22 in.
Price Realized £12,000
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George Vicat Cole - Great Marlow




signed with monogram and dated '91' (lower right) and further signed and inscribed 'Gt. Marlow on Thames/Vicat Cole' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
20 x 30 in.
A similar subject, Great Marlow on Thames, was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1886, no. 1052.
Price Realized £5,400

Arthur Grimshaw - The Clapham Omnibus




signed and dated 'Arthur K Grimshaw.1898.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
11¼ x 18 in.
Price Realized £62,400