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Newlyn Cornwall view

The Thimble Society — Thu, 17 May 2012 08:10:27 +0000

Born in 1894 in Mousehole, Cornwall, son of the village shoemaker. Won a scholarship to the Slade but preferred to study in Penzance. Also pained under W.Sands. Died 1980

People in a metro coach in St Petersberg

The Thimble Society — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:36:38 +0000

Pdolaskyaya trained at the Intermediate Art School 1961-1967.St Petersberg. From 1968-1975 Regin Academy of Arts. Elected a member of the Artists Union. Her paintings are in internationel collections in the USA, France, Germany and Italy.

Barquentine Gladstone

Walpole Antiques — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:30:00 +0000

The three-masted wooden barquentine Gladstone, near Flushing, with a Deal pilot at her stern. Painted in watercolour, gouache and ink on paper, with gum arabic highlights. Within a period bird’s eye maple frame.
w.37 in x h.29.5 in
Gladstone was built in Geddie’s yard at Banff in 1873. Registered in her home port at 152 tons gross and net, she measured 95 feet in length with a 22 foot beam and her first owner, Morrison & Co., traded her out of Banff to North Africa. Clearly following many different routes during her working life, she was still trading out of Banff, under Captain Burns, when she was lost on 17th December 1901 following a collision with the S.S. Yarrawonga in the Thames Estuary whilst en route to London from Terneuzen (Netherlands) with a cargo of phosphates.
This painting may be dated to the early 1880s when she was commanded by Captain Singer and after De Clerk had left Liverpool and returned to Antwerp.
Aristidius Amatus Joannes De Clerck was born in Ostend on 24th September 1841 and spent many years working from Antwerp, the hometown of Rubens, Bruegel and Rembrandt. His work was readily commissioned by seafarers from New England, Canada, and Europe; he was especially valued by the Scandinavians who called him “The Rembrandt of Antwerp”. He himself liked to be referred to as A. de Clerck. His career as a pierhead painter began when he was 30, before this he had been a sailor, both of steam and sail. He married Virginia Scheltiens in 1869 and the first of their five children, Virginia Maria, was born the following year. Their second child, Joannes Petrus was born in 1872,…….in Liverpool. It is unknown why the family moved to Liverpool but it would have made a good alternative to Antwerp with a prodigeous volume of commerce exchanged with North America at this time. After six years in Liverpool the De Clercks returned to Antwerp where he spent the rest of his years.
Examples of his work are to be found in a large number of institutional collections, especially those of Scandinavia, but including the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Peabody Museum of Salem, MA, and the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.
My grateful acknowledgment of these facts goes to Kenneth R. Martin who published the pamphlet ‘The Maritime Folk Art of A. De Clerck” for the Maine Maritime Museum.

London from Whitehall Gardens

Walpole Antiques — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:04:51 +0000

“London and the Thames from Whitehall Gardens”. Signed and inscribed to the margin, the first of 75, dedicated to a friend, Martha, circa 1937. Within the original silvered oak frame. The plate mark 16 inches x 10.25 inches.
w.23 in x h.17.5 in
Phyllis Pearsall, born in London 1906, her father was a noted Hungarian map publisher, her brother was the artist Anthony Gross. Whilst at the Sorbonne she was encouraged by the artist James McBey to take up painting. On her return to London in the 1920s she originated the London A-Z Street Map. During the war she worked in the Ministry of Information, her company producing maps to aid the war effort. She returned to painting during the 1960s and held many solo shows, her final exhibition was at the Little Gallery, Arundel, in 1995.
She died at Shorham in 1996.

East Surrey Regiment Woolwork

Walpole Antiques — Wed, 02 May 2012 21:55:48 +0000

Late Victorian soldier made regimental woolwork for the East Surrey Regiment, unusually signed by the maker, Private A. Smith. English circa 1890, within a period maple veneered frame.

‘Royal Artillery’

Walpole Antiques — Tue, 01 May 2012 18:10:56 +0000

A Victorian lithographic print ‘Royal Artillery’, the soldier standing beside a mortar cannon and before the Rotunda. Published by J.M. Boddy and S. Watt at Woolwich. English circa 1850.

La Solitude & La Precaution

Walpole Antiques — Tue, 01 May 2012 18:00:47 +0000

La Solitude & La Precaution a pretty pair of stipple engravings by Salvator Tresca (c.1750-c.1815) after the works by Boily, within modern hand made frames. French circa 1800.

The Bakehouse Close Edinburgh

Walpole Antiques — Tue, 01 May 2012 17:31:59 +0000

The Bakehouse Close. An artist’s proof etching signed in pencil by the artist, Alfred Bentley. Within the original frame retaining the gallery label for Robert Dunthorne. English circa 1920. Slight foxing, mostly evident to left margin close to plate edge. w.13.25 x h.18.75 plate 4 5/8 in x 9 1/2 in
Alfred Bentley (1879-1923) was a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers. He was awarded the MC for service during the first world war, the injuries he sustained during which bought about his early death in 1923. His work is in the collections of The Ashmolean, British and Victoria and Albert Museums.

The Duke of York

Walpole Antiques — Tue, 01 May 2012 13:38:11 +0000

Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany 1763-1827
A pen, ink and watercolour portrait of the Duke with gum arabic and heightened with gold. In the original carved and giltwood frame, all circa 1790.

Armorial

Walpole Antiques — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:36:58 +0000

A mid 19th century coat of arms, painted in oil on copper and within a period gilt gesso frame.