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    Oil on Canvas, 78x94cm. b.1926 Ken Paine was born in Lambeth, London in 1926. He studied at Twickenham College of Art and later with R.O. Dunlop RA. After travelling extensively for several years, the artist settled in the United States. It was during this time that he further developed his interest in portraiture, and of the character studies which have become his life's work. He travelled all around the States, painting people from all walks of life, before returning to England to set up his studio. Since 1962 the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the Pastel Society have exhibited his work, and his commissions have included many dignitaries and celebrities. Paine is a member of the Pastel Society and the Societie des Pastellistes de France. He has won numerous awards for his portraiture both in the UK and France. His work has been exhibited widely over the years and he has held many solo exhibitions. In 1999 a major retrospective of his work was stages in Bath Museum. In 2004 Toulouse Museum acquired two of his works. Ken Paine works in all media, but pastel is the medium for which he is most well known. His work leans towards the romantic and shows genuine pathos without being sentimental. The vitality revealed in his portraits can be awe-inspiring. The artist's empathy with his subjects produces a quite unique artistic result which is admired world wide. A beautifully illustrated biography: 'Ken Paine - His life and work' by Michael Simonow, was published by Mechanick Excersises in 1997. In 2001 an hour long documentary on his life and work was commissioned by Sky Television's cultural channel. Purchased from a private collection, full provenance and additional information is available.
  • Oil on Canvas, 75x63cm. Leonard Richmond R.B.A., R.I., R.O.I., P.S. d.1965 Leonard Richmond studied at the Taunton School of Art and Chelsea Polytechnic. He was a prolific exhibitor at the Fine Art Society, Royal Academy, Cooling and Walker's Galleries and also showed widely overseas winning a number of awards. These included the Tuthill prize at the Chicago International Watercolour Exhibition in 1928 and in 1947 a silver medal at the Paris Salon.
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    Oil on Board, 35x30cm. Marius Alexander Jacques Bauer 1867 - 1932 Considered one of the most important Belgian painters of his period this painting executed during the First World War is particularly poignant. The recent revival of interest in Orientalism has led to the rediscovery of the Dutch artist Marius Bauer. Bauer was an inveterate traveller, going off to India, Indonesia, Turkey, Palestine and Morocco among other destinations. In 1888 he was given the opportunity to make his first trip east, to Istanbul, by the art dealer E.J. van Wisselingh. He returned with more than 100 drawings and several full sketchbooks. This pattern repeated itself again and again. Among the cities he visited were Cairo, Luxor, Jerusalem, Agra and Benares. He was irresistably drawn to street life, the colourful populace and the exotic landscape of parts of the world that were then unfamiliar to most people. There Bauer found inspiration for spacious landscapes and picturesque city scenes. In addition to drawings, he also made etchings, aquarelles anf paintings. (Singer Museum)
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    Hagarty exh. 1882 - 1928 A highly successful artist, Mary Hagarty was elected a full member of the Society of Women Artists in 1918. Principally a watercolour painter, she painted the landscape of England and Wales and held a strong affection for Venice where she exhibited many works of the city. She lived for some time in both London and Liverpool and exhibited 131 works at the Walker Art Gallery and numerous works at the principal London galleries, including the Royal Academy, Royal Institute and the Royal Society of British Artists.
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    Oil on Canvas, 22x16cm. Maccrossan 1863 - 1934 Ex private collection. Provenance: Royal Academy Exhibit 1898 'White Gigs' no. 513 (This was Mary Maccrossans first Royal Academy Exhibit, purchased by the Liverpool Corporation in 1928). One of the most gifted of the early St. Ives painters, Mary Maccrossan won the acclaim of not only her critics but also her fellow artists. She was born in Liverpool and studied at the Liverpool School of Art then at Delacluse's in Paris and finally in St. Ives with Julius Olsson. This exceptional work with its silver grey palette illustrates her at her best. She exhibited at numerous leading London and Provincial galleries. Further details available on request.
  • Oil on Canvas, 58x48cm. McCrossan 1863-1934 One of the most respected of the early St. Ives painters this exceptional example dates from circa 1910. Mary McCrossan was born in Liverpool and studied at the Liverpool School of Art before progressing on to the Academie Delecluse in Paris. On leaving Paris she then studied under Julius Olsson in St. Ives. She held several one-man shows at the Ballie and Beaux Arts galleries between 1909 and 1928. Lived in 126 Cheyne Walk and travelled extensively until 1929 when she moved to St. Ives permanently. Exhibited at the Royal Academy and the R.B.A.
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    Oil on Canvas, 58x65cm. exh. 1889 - 1907 A wonderful and evocative painting by Mary Swan. A talented artist she was equally at home with various subject matter but excelled at these intimate scenes. She exhibited at numerous principal galleries both in London and in the provinces including the Royal Academy. She lived for much of her life in Bromley, Kent.
  • Miriam Deane exh. 1890's - 1927 A stunning watercolour by Miriam Deane who was born in Liverpool and later moved to London. An accomplished artist with a confident loose style she exhibited with considerable success at numerous venues both in London and the provinces including the London Salon, Waller Art Gallery, Liverpool and the Glasgow Institute.
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    Oil on Canvas, 118x64cm. Nathaniel Hughes John Baird R.O.I. 1865 - 1935 Nathaniel Baird was born in Yetholm in Roxburghshire and was the son of John Baird the minister who is famed for his work in reforming the gypsy population and particularly for the founding of the first 'Ragged Schools'. Baird first studied under his father and then at the Coldstream Academy, Edinburgh, then London and later Paris. He had his first Royal Academy work accepted in 1883 and exhibited at many of the principal galleries from that date including the R.O.I. of which he was elected a member. He was equally at home with both oil and watercolour and a favourite subject was the heavy horse at work. He continued to exhibit until the 1930's. He moved to Devon in 1880 living at Dawlish where he was given an interesting commission by the Miller family of Torquay to paint portraits of the family. One of the sitters was the youngest daughter Agatha who was to gain worldwide fame as the crime writer Agatha Christie. Following the death of his wife in 1919 he moved from Devon to Sussex where he died in 1935.
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    Oil on Board, 12x15cm. Oliver b.1927 Born in Jersey in the Channel Islands in 1927, he started painting during a prolonged illness and went on to study first at Exeter for his diploma in Painting and subsequently post-graduate studies in Liverpool. While still a student he exhibited work at the Redfern Gallery, London, and with the Royal Society of British Artists. Since those early days Peter Oliver has maintained strong links with the Redfern Gallery and has had a number of one-man shows with them. He has exhibited regularly in London and has also exhibited at the City Art Gallery in Salford. His work is in many collections, including the Tate Gallery, the Courtauld Institute, Manchester City Art Gallery and in the U.S.A. with the Fielding Collection New York, the Charles Berenson Collection etc.
  • Oil on Board, 38x48cm. Connard R.A., R.W.S., N.E.A.C., N.P.S., I.S. 1875-1958 Born in Southport, Lancashire, he worked first as a house painter at the same time taking evening classes which resulted in him recieving a scholarship to the Royal College of Art to study textile design. His training as a painter began in 1898 when with the aid of a British Institution travelling scholarship he enrolled at the Atelier Julian in Paris. On his return he worked as an illustrator for Bodley Head. From 1909 he became a regular visitor with the New English Art Club and as a result developed a close relationship with Philip Wilson Street, often accompanying him on painting excursions. He quickly established himself as both a fine landscape and portrait painter and was a founder member of the National Portrait Society. He was invalided out of the army after the battle of the Somme and became an official war artist in the Royal Navy until 1918. Connard had a long and distingushed career, being elected a member of the Royal Academy in 1925.
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    Oil on Board, 11x7cm. A painter, illustrator and writer Reg Gammon was born in Petersfield, Hampshire. In 1918 Muirhead Bone offered to get him into the Slade School but he declined as he had married. He took up instead a career as a writer and illustrator working for 'Punch' and for cycling and motoring magazines. Following the end of World War II, he moved back to the Black Mountains in Wales and became a hill farmer. It was in 1958 that Reg decided to become a full-time painter and moved to Somerset, setting up his studio in Cannington. His principal influence was Gaugin and this is evident in his lively pure palette. He achieved considerable success and was a member of both the R.W.A. and the R.O.I. In 1990 he published his biography 'One Man's Furrow, 90 years of country living'.
  • Oil on Canvas, 79x60cm. Robert Craig fl. 1879 - 1888 Little is known of this particularly gifted Scottish painter and his work is rarely on the market. He is known to have lived at Craegest, Dalkeith - an address from which exhibited five works at the Royal Scottish Academy. He also exhibited at the Glasgow Institute but appears not to have exhibited in England. Technically a fine painter with a good eye for composition, this is a delightful study from Victorian Scotland.
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    Oil on Board, 42x36cm. Ronald Ossory Dunlop R.A., R.B.A., N.E.A.C., L.G. 1896-1973 Provenance: Ex private collection. Born in Dublin, a painter of figure subjects, landscapes, portraits and still life. He was educated at Saffron Walden in Essex and worked for an advertising agency from the age of nineteen and after the First World War abandoned this for painting. He attended evening classes at the Wimbledon School of Art, and also studied in Manchester and Paris. In 1923 he founded the Emotionist Group of Writers and Artists. He held his first one-man show in 1928 at the Redfern Gallery. His work is represented in numerous public collections.
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    Watercolour, 70x90cm. Ruskin Spear R.A. 1911 - 1990 Born in Hammersmith, London, where he spent most of his life and which he frequently painted. An attack of polio as a child badly affected one leg so he attended Brook Green School for crippled children. At the age of fifteen he won a scholarship to the Hammersmith School of Art, another scholarship in 1930 taking him to the Royal College of Art for four year under William Rotherstein. Essentially an English painter in the Sickert tradition, his working class background was reflected in his pictures of seedy back streets and bar room life. An important painter, he painted many portraits, including Winston Churchill, Princess Anne, Margaret Thatcher, Lord Hailsham, Lord Olivier et al.
  • Oil on Canvas, 52x42cm. Murray R.A., P.R.I., R.S.A. 1849-1933 One of the most influential and respected painters of his period, David Murray was born in Glasgow. After spending eleven years with a mercantile firm he was to become an artist and studied at the Glasgow School of Art. In his early years he painted almost exclusively in Scotland before moving to London in 1883. Following this period he travelled extensively on the continent in particular Italy. He was knighted in 1918.