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    Derwent Lees Provenance: The Fine Art Society 1886 - 1931 Born in Australia he studied in Melbourne and then in Paris. He then arrived in London to attend the Slade School from 1905 - 1907. While still undergoing his studies he was invited to join the academic staff and he taught drawing at the Slade from 1908 - 1918. His close associates included J. D. Innes and Augustus John and around this period he worked with them in Dorset and Wales painting lyrical landscapes in vivid colours on small wooden panels. He travelled widely in Europe and during 1912 - 1914 he visited the south of France. Derwent Lees met his wife Edith Brice known as Lyndra, through Augustus John for whom she has modelled 'The Edwardians', and 'Secrets and Desires'. Derwent Lees died in Surrey in 1931.
  • Dorothea Maclagan Born in Greenock, she studied at the Byam Shaw and Cole School of Art between 1914 and 1917. She then studied for five years at the Royal Academy Schools where her tutors included Sir George Clausen and Ernest Jackson. While at the Academy Schools she won a silver medal for drawing, the Armitage Prize, the Landseer Prize and the Landseer Scholarship. She kept a studio in London throughout the 1920's and exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, the Royal Portrait Society and the New English Art Club as well as in the provinces and in Sweeden and Holland. Amongst her close artist friends were Glyn Philpot, Vivian Forbes and John Nash. During the 1930's she moved to Meadle in the Vale of Aylesbury where she made a garden and began to specialise more in botanical work. After the was she had one-woman shows in Cambridge and at Dartington Great Hall. She continued to exhibit regularly in London and exhibited more than 40 paintings at the Royal Academy during her career. Her highly sensitive work, often on a small scale reflects the influence of her thorough classical training. She delighted in 'concentrated' work and botanical painting and her meticulous watercolour style and precise observation. Her figure studies whilst possessing great academic skill also reveal a subtle and human tenderness.
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    Oil on Canvas, 16x20cm. Dorothea Sharp R.B.A., R.O.I., V.P.S.W.A. 1873 - 1955 Dorothea Sharp was considered as one of the greatest artists of her time. Born in Dartford, Kent she studied painting both in England and France. Her first paintings were of an academic nature. Her style changed dramatically having seen the work of the impressionist painters and with the encouragement of George Clausen and Sir David Murray she developed a highly distinctive style. She exhibited with considerable success at the Royal Academy and other leading London galleries. In the 1920's she with her good friend and fellow artist Marcella Smith, moved to St. Ives - both of whom became active members of the St. Ives Society of Artists.
  • Watercolour, 56x44cm. Dudley Hardy R.I., R.B.A., R.M.S., P.S. 1867 - 1922 Provenance : Exhibition label verso - The Graves Gallery. An exceptional talent Dudley Hardy was the eldest son of the marine painter Thomas Bush Hardy. He studied first under his father and then at the age of fifteen was sent to the Dusseldorf Academy and studied under Crola and Lowenstein. He rebelled against the teaching methods of the Academy and left remaining in Dusseldorf painting landscapes and genre. However he did decide to return to the Academy for a further three years before returning to England. He then spent a spell at the Antwerp Academy under Verlat and for two years in Paris with Collin and Rossi. He evidently had a vivid imagination as he acted as 'war artist in the Sudan' for a periodical while living in London! He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1885, and he quickly established his reputation with the showing in 1888 of his first large canvas Sans Asile. He painted many Eastern scenes and later a number of Breton genre subjects, he was also well known for his theatre posters that include the famous 'Yellow Girl'.
  • Oil on Canvas, 14x18cm. Dudley Hardy R.I., R.B.A., R.M.S., P.S. 1867 - 1922 An exceptional talent Dudley Hardy was the eldest son of the marine painter Thomas Bush Hardy. He studied first under his father and then at the age of fifteen was sent to the Dusseldorf Academy and studied under Crola and Lowenstein. He rebelled against the teaching methods of the Academy and left remaining in Dusseldorf painting landscapes and genre. However he did decide to return to the Academy for a further three years before returning to England. He then spent a spell at the Antwerp Academy under Verlat and for two years in Paris with Collin and Rossi. He evidently had a vivid imagination as he acted as 'war artist in the Sudan' for a periodical while living in London! He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1885, and he quickly established his reputation with the showing in 1888 of his first large canvas Sans Asile. He painted many Eastern scenes and later a number of Breton genre subjects, he was also well known for his theatre posters that include the famous 'Yellow Girl'.
  • Watercolour, 56x44cm. Dudley Hardy R.I., R.B.A., R.M.S., P.S. 1867 - 1922 An exceptional talent Dudley Hardy was the eldest son of the marine painter Thomas Bush Hardy. He studied first under his father and then at the age of fifteen was sent to the Dusseldorf Academy and studied under Crola and Lowenstein. He rebelled against the teaching methods of the Academy and left remaining in Dusseldorf painting landscapes and genre. However he did decide to return to the Academy for a further three years before returning to England. He then spent a spell at the Antwerp Academy under Verlat and for two years in Paris with Collin and Rossi. He evidently had a vivid imagination as he acted as 'war artist in the Sudan' for a periodical while living in London! He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1885, and he quickly established his reputation with the showing in 1888 of his first large canvas Sans Asile. He painted many Eastern scenes and later a number of Breton genre subjects, he was also well known for his theatre posters that include the famous 'Yellow Girl'.
  • Oil on Board, 42x37cm. Dudley Hardy R.I., R.B.A., R.M.S., P.S. 1867 - 1922 Provenance : This exceptional small panel is described in 'Brush, Pen and Pencil' a biography of the artist's life. (further details on request) An exceptional talent, Dudly Hardy was the eldest son of the marine painter Thomas Bush Hardy. He studied first under his father and then at the age of fifteen was sent to the Dusseldorf Academy and studied under Crola and Lowenstein. He rebelled against the teaching methods of the Academy and left - remaining in Dusseldorf painting landscapes and genre. However he did decide to return to the Academy for a further three years before returning to England. He then spend a spell at the Antwerp Academy under Verlat and for two years in Paris with Collin and Rossi. He veidentley had a vivid imagination as he acted as 'War Artist in the Sudan' for a periodical while living in London! He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1885 and he quikly established his reputation with the showing in 1888 of his first large canvas Sans Asile. He painted many eastern scenes and later a number of Breton genre subjects, he was also well known for his theatre posters that include the famous 'Yellow Girl'.
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    Oil on Paper, 43x53cm. Duncan James Corrowr Grant 1885 - 1978 Private Collection. Provenance : Clarissa Roche, with interesting accompanying letter.
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    Oil on Board, Signed Verso, 90x60cm. Edmund Gill 1820 - 1894 Born in London, Edmund Gill was highly successful during his lifetime and made a speciality of painting waterfalls, which earned him the nickname 'Waterfall Gill'. He met David Cox in 1841 in Birmingham, which was to prove an inspiration to him. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1842 and he continued to show there until 1886. He lived at various time in London, Ludlow and Hereford. Much of his subject matter is taken from the landscape of Wales and Scotland ; this example was probably painted in North Wales.
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    Oil on Canvas, 8x14cm. Edward Matthew Hale R.O.I. 1852 - 1904 Edward Mathew Hale studied in Paris from 1873-1875 under Cabanel and Carolus Duran. He was the official war artist for the London Illustrated News during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878. He exhibited with considerable success at many of the principle London galleries including the Royal Academy and was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. A painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1893.
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    Oil on Canvas, 19x26cm. Edwin Harris 1855 - 1906 Whenever interest is shown in the work of Edwin Harris it always seems to be centred around the years he spent in Newlyn in the company of Stanhope Forbes and the other Newlyn artists. This has meant that his work before he went to Newlyn has tended to be ignored, even though he was already exhibiting at the RBSA in 1877. A landscape, genre and figure artist, Harris was born in Ladywood, Birmingham, where he was educated locally and met W. A. Breakspeare who was to become his lifelong friend. After receiving his initial training at the Birmingham School of Art he went to Verlat's Academy in Antwerp, where he met Breakspeare again, who was already a student there. After returning to Birmingham in 1880 Harris made several exploratory trips to Newlyn, and finally settled there in 1883. He spent twelve happy years in Newlyn, which were marred only by the death of his wife. During that time her painted mostly scenes of pretty girls against a background of a cottage interior, or anecdotal subjects which sometime featured old men, as in 'Resting' above. Unlike Stanhope Forbes, Harris did not seem to have any empathy with the local fishing folk. Fred hall painted an excellent portrait of Harris which shows him as a heavily moustached, faintly lugubrious-looking man with a pipe drooping from his mouth. The portrait is now in the possession of the Tate Gallery. This Painting is illustrated in 'A Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Artists' by Adrian Vincent.
  • Watercolour, 70x90cm. Elizabeth (miss) Gulland d.1934 Both a painter and engraver this artist was born in Edinburgh. She exhibited at the principal London galleries from 1884 and also at the Royal Scottish Academy. This haunting portrait illustrates her considerable individuality and her skill as a gifted and original artist. She lived for many years at Bushey where Herkomer founded his influential school of painting.
  • Oil on Board, 34x23cm. Ernest Borough Johnson 1867-1949 Inscribed verso March 1916. Born in Shifnal in Shropshire, Johnson was a painter in oils, watercolours, tempera and pastel of portraits, figure subjects and landscapes. He was also an important lithographer, etcher and charcoal draughtsman. Johnson studied at the Slade School under Alphonse Legros and at the Herkomer School, Bushey. He exhibited very widely at the principal London galleries from 1886 and extensively abroad. Elected an RBA in 1896, RI in 1906 - he received an Honourable Mention at the Paris Salon in 1922, and a silver medal in 1923. Amongst his published books were 'The Art of the Pencil' which is a wonderful record of his fine draughtsmanship. He was Professor of Fine Arts, Bedford College, London University, and for fifteen years Headmaster of the Art Department of Chelsea Polytechic. Amongst his highly successful work as an illustrator was Thomas Hardy's 'Tess of the D'Urbevilles'. His work is represented in public collections worldwide.
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    Oil on Canvas, 66x84cm. Ernest Jules Renoux 1863 - 1932 Born in Romeny-sur-Marne, Renoux was working at the height of French Impressionism. He favoured painting the human form, often using members of his family as sitters. His home town has a museum dedicated to his life and work and there is also a well dedicated to his memory. Further details on request.
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    Aldridge 1850 - 1933 A good early example of a marine oil dating from the 19th century by the well known Worthing artist Frederick James Aldridge. Aldridge lived all his eighty three years in Worthing and was a regular visitor to Cowes Regatta for fifty years. Highly collectable, he was a regular exhibitor at the London galleries including the Royal Academy. On his death an obituary appeared in the Times which commented that he had 'established an international reputation especially in British Commonwealth countries.'
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    Oil on Canvas, 55x44cm. Florence A Saltmer exh. 1882 - 1908 An artist with a distinctive style, Florence Saltmer lived at various times in London, Surrey and Sussex. She exhibited with considerable success at numerous principal London galleries including the Royal Academy, Royal Institute, Royal Society of Oil Painters, Society of Women Artists etc.
  • Oil on Canvas, 52x59cm. Edward Burnham Hughes N.E.A.C. 1905-1987 Provenance: New English Art Club exhibit (exhibition label verso) Frank Hughes was born at St. Pancras, London. He studied at St. Martin's School of Art in the 1920's and served in the British Army in WW2. In order to support himself he worked in administration for the London Water Board. He had an important friendship with the painter Edward Bishop R.B.A., N.E.A.C. Other contemporaries were Francis Gower, Brian Blow and Ronald Horton. He also worked with Marjorie Jenkins at and around Gooseberry Cottage, Lindsey Tye, near Hadleigh, Suffolk. His partner in later years was Kathleen Haacke MBE. He traveled with her in Italy and France, producing on their travels drawings and watercolours of landscapes and cafes: these formed the basis of subsequent paintings, often, like his portraits, dark and small. He had a hatred of the establishment and was very left wing in his outlook. He spent most of his life in Hampstead and North London, working from a studio in Muswell Hill for 25 years.
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    R.B.A., Provenance: The British Galleries c.1890 exh. 1880 - 1897 An important painting by this distinctive Victorian painter. Fred Hines lived in Essex and London painting mostly in watercolour choosing rural subject matter, which he portrayed in a romantic and sensitive style. He achieved considerable success exhibiting his works at the Royal Academy and numerous leading London galleries.
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    Milner R.B.C., R.W.A. d.1939 An artist with a long association with the early St. Ives School he specialised in landscapes. Born in Yorkshire he studied at the Wakefield and Doncaster Schools of Art and later at the Slade in London. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1892 and from that date was a regular exhibitor at the leading galleries in London, the provinces and abroad. His work is held in several public collections.
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    Oil on Board, 35x24cm. Milner R.B.C., R.W.A. 1860-1939 The artist arrived in St. Ives from Cheltenham, after studying at both Wakefield and Doncaster Art Schools. In the 1890's he exhibited views of Lelant at the Royal Academy. From 1903 to the end of his life he lived at Zareba on Trelohyan Hill, but traveled extensively, painting not only in the Cotswolds and Kent, but also abroad in France, Spain and Portugal. At the March Show Day in 1911 he exhibited 'A Bracing Breeze to a Gale it Grew', 'Westward as the Sun Went Down', and 'Portalegre', all in oils working from Piazza Studios, St. Ives. Working locally with STISA, he showed three large canvases at Show Day in 1924, and from 1926 with NAG. His titles include: 'Cotswold Stream' (RA 1912), 'The Pool' (1913), 'Low Tide on Bar, Evening on the South Downs' (1924), 'October Mists in Berkshire' (1924), 'The Pool Below the Hatch, Willow Herb' and 'On the Great Ouse'. Tovey comments on this fascination for Corfe Castle (Dorset) which repeatedly featured in his work. He was survived by his wife, also an artist member of STISA (no records), who died in 1947.
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    Oil on Canvas, 63x52cm. Freda Marston R.B.A., R.O.I. 1895-1949 Freda Marston, nee Culow was born in Hampstead, and studied at the very first polytechnic - Regent Street Polytechnic, founded in 1838 - followed by four years in Italy with John Terrick Williams R.A. Williams was a landscapist working in oils, watercolour and pastels, and his luminescent style greatly influenced his pupil. In 1922 she married another landscape painter, Reginald St. Clair Marston (1886-1943). She was a prolific artist, exhibiting at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, the Royal Society of Artists Birmingham, the Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, Manchester City Art Gallery, and the Royal Society of Women Artists. She was elected to the R.B.A. in 1924 and the R.O.I. in 1925. She was also the only female artist commissioned by British Rail, the London, Midland and Scottish, and the London and North Eastern Railways to produce prosters and the shallow horizontal paintings used for artwork in the railways carriages. Works in public collections include Flood the Amberley (Towner Art Gallery); Duncombe Park, Yorkshire and Lastingham, Yorkshire, both original British Railway carriage prints (National Railway Musuem).
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    Frederick Brown N.E.A.C. 1851 - 1941 One of the most influential artists and teachers of his period, Fred Brown was one of the founding members with George Clausen, Sargent and Wilson Steer of the New English Art Club which held its first exhibition in 1886. Born in Chelmsford, Essex he was the son of a painter and art teacher. He studied first at the Royal College of Art and later in Paris under Bouguereau and Tom Fleury. He exhibited at numerous principal London galleries including the Royal Academy where he showed his celebrated work 'Hard Times'. He was Slade Professor from 1892 - 1918 and had an enormous influence on many of the most successful British painters of the early 20th Century. His work is held in a number of public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum. He died in Richmond, Surrey in 1941 and had acquired an extensive collection of modern British paintings.
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    Oil on Canvas, 88x108cm. Garnet Ruskin Wolseley 1884 - 1967 Provenance : Ex private collection, It seems likely that the children depicted in this work are the daughters of Lamorna Birch and the setting is Lamorna in Cornwall. Garnet Wolseley started his formal training under Herbert Van Herkomer continuing his studies at the Slade under Henry Tonks and Fred Brown where he won a gold medal. In 1908 aged 24 he moved to Newlyn, quickly forging a close relationship with Harold and Laura Knight who had moved from Staithes the previous year. Both these artists had a considerable effect on his development as an artist.
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    George Bunn b.1895 An outstanding marine painting by George Bunn, a relatively early impressionist artist of whom little is known. He had an address in London at the time he exhibited individual works at the Glasgow Institute, the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Hibernian Academy. The confident and assured style employed by the artist may suggest that he had studied on the continent. Further research will no doubt reveal more.
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    Oil on Board, 30x40cm. George Charles Haite R.I., R.O.I., R.B.A., R.B.C. 1855 - 1924 A highly talented artist, Haite worked in both oil and watercolour and as a designer produced wallpaper, leaded glass and metalwork. The son of George Haite the designer he received little encouragement from his father and was largely self taught. He arrived in London in 1872 and his early years were devoted to design work. He later turned to painting and became very successful, he first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1883. He was elected President of the Langham Sketch Club and President of The Institute of Decorative Designers.
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    George F. Gregory 1815 - 1885 Born in England, he began his working life as a draughtsman with the Thames Iron Works. He set sail for Australia in 1848 at the time of the 1848 gold rush. By 1854 he had established himself as a specialist marine painter in Melbourne. His style has a tendency to the naive which gives his work a considerable charm. It would seem he was reasonably successful as a good number of his works survive in both private and public collections. The Peabody Museum of Salem holds three examples of his work.
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    Oil on Canvas, 52x60cm. Grace M Sainsbury fl. 1888 - 1917 Provenance : Remnant of an exhibition label (possibly ROI). An exceptional example by the London based artist Grace Sainsbury who specialised in figure and landscape painting. She exhibited at many of the principle London galleries including the Royal Academy and the Society of Women Artists. This particular example is in wonderful original condition and retains its original exhibition frame.
  • Oil on Canvas, 58x50cm. Gustave Lino 1893-1961 Provenance: Ex-private collection, Paris Gustave Lino was a French painter born in Mulhouse, October 27th 1893, and died in Algiers in 1961. He sailed for Algiers at the age of 19 in 1912, but was put in "civil prison" in Ajecco, Corsica in 1914 as a German citizen (Mulhouse was part of the German Empire since 1871). He spent the First World War on the Island of Beauty and painted among other subjects the historic Hotel Solferino Ajaccio and also completed religious decorations at the Castle Malaspena, Massa Belgodere. By December 1918 he had returned to Algiers, where he became a pupil of Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse. He exhibited at the Salon of French Artists in 1926, and Danton gallery Rue La Boetie in 1927. Besides Algeria, where there are paintings permanently held in Algiers and Bou-Saada, he travelled to Italy (coast of Naples, Sicily), Spain, Morocco and Tunisia; Sidi Bou Said, Tunis-Bizerte. He was a painter of the group known as the "Painters of Poetic Reality" (with Jean Cavailles Legueult, Planson, Maurice Brianchon), and was a close friend of Albert Marquet. Marcelle Marquet said of him that "he succeeded better than the Marquet himself". He was also praised by Albert Camus who said of Gustave Lino "His seascapes, if one feels the influence of Marquet, are not less real successes, sensitive, fresh and unique" (about the Salon Algerian artists of 1934). His palette is very colourful, often linear, with a predilection for a blue motif, not just of the northern cities of Algeria, but also the landscapes of southern Laghouat, Touggourt or El Oued, and Italy. He was a prominent member of the School of Algiers, he exhibited at the Galerie de l'Institut rue de Seine in 1956, and posthumously received the last Grand Prix Artistic of Ageria in 1962.
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    Oil on Board, 76x56cm. Russell R.B.A., R.I., R.O.I., R.S.M.A. 1892-1970 Gyrth Russell was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in April 1892, the last of eight children. His father, a canadian M.P., was also Supreme High Court Judge for Nova Scotia. At the age of fourteen, Gyrth began his artistic career at Halifax School of Art, and quickly graduated to the School of Art at Boston Mass'. His first job was as a draughtsman in the Public Works Department of Canade, in Halifax. It was during this period he saw and sketched the cable ship 'Mackay Bennett' returning to her Halifax Station, her decks piled high with coffins containing bodies found after the Titanic disaster. In 1911 Gyrth left Canada to study at the Academie Julian and Academie Calorossi in Paris. At the outbreak of War, Gyrth left France for London where he was commissioned, under the command of Lord Beaverbrook, as an official War Artist for the Canadian Sector, and spent most of 1918 in Northern France painting the ravaged landscapes. During the course of the First World War he worked with amongst others, Augustus John, Orpen and Frank Brangwyn. Between the wars Gyrth earned his living as an artist in film studios, designing Railway posters, lecturing and writing. During this time he was elected to membership of the R.B.A., R.I., R.O.I., and the R.S.M.A., as well as being an active member of the Langham Sketchclub. In 1944, bombed out of London, Gyrth moved to Yorkshire, where apart from continuing his work as an artist, he became a regular visiting lecturer at Doncaster School of Art. In 1953 he moved for the last time, to Penarth in South Wales, where he continued to work until his death in December 1970. Whilst in South Wales his talents as an artist and a lecturer were as much in demand as ever. He became an active member of both the Watercolour Society of Wales and the South Wales Art Society. Gyrth Russell was a prolific and talented artist whose works were much more sought after during his lifetime and have become increasingly more so since his death.
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    Oil on Board, 42x35cm. Mathy 1897-1978 A belgian artist, he was born in Landen and studied art at the Academy of Verviers before furthering his education in Antwerp. His studies were cut short by the outbreak of World War I with the young artist joining the army as a volunteer. His next four years would be spent in the trenches. It was during this period that he met, and was befriended by the great landscape painter Henri Houben, a chance meeting that was to pave the way for his later success as an artist. Unlike many of his contemporaries who by now were embracing expressionism, stylistically Heni Mathy still remained in the 19th Century tradition concerned with the accurate depiction of rural life. His work is renowned for its highly atmospheric quality. its subtle yet evocative colouring and technical mastery. A frequent exhibitor at numerous exhibitions throughout Belguim, he also showed in France and Germany during the 1920's. Henri Mathy died in Brussels in 1978 but his paintings can be seen today in the provincial museums of Brabant and Hainaut as well as the city museums of Charletroi, Mons and Verviers in Belgium.
  • Oil on Canvas, 76x60cm. Hubert Arthur Finney 1905-1991 Provenance: Purchased from the artists son. Hubert Arthur Finney was a talented draughtsman by the age of 14. He won a trade scholarship to Beckenham School of Art and then moved to the Royal College of Art in 1924. He won the prestigious traveling scholarship to Italy and was befriended by the then Principal later Sir, William Rothenstein. His friends and contemporaries included Charles Mahoney, Percy Horton, Gerald Ososki, Barnett Friedman and Edward Le Bas. During the war he served in the Civil Defence in London driving ambulances, but became ill in late 1944 with pleurosy from debris dust. In 1945 he moved to Wokingham in Berkshire with his new wife Amy, and in 1946 too a post with the University of Reading as a lecturer in fine art where he predominantly taught life drawing. He went to the University of Milwaukee on an exchange in 1965 and on his retirement returned to England and moved to Somerset in 1969 where he lived until his death in 1991. His works have been exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Academy, the Louvre in Paris and some are held in public collections. A studio sale was held in 2007 by the late Duncan Campbell in his South Kensington Gallery.
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    Oil, 58x75cm. Bellingham Smith N.E.A.C. 1866 - 1922 Born in London, Hugh Bellingham Smith first studied art at the Slade School of Art under Legros and then in Paris under Constant. An artist of considerable talent he exhibited at many of the principal London galleries from 1891 and was elected a member of the New English Art Club. He painted in a very distinctive style with a wide range of subject matter, often visiting Yorkshire and Cornwall for inspiration. This excellent example retains its original frame.