Sir David Murray

Barges on a River

The Fishing Port of Les Treport Pierre Jacques Pelletier French 1869 - 1931 15 x 22" 21 x 28" Signed and dated 1888 bottom right Provenance: The William McInnes collection and thence by decent The Late Margaret Chase, niece of William McInnes Oil on Canvas Born 12th November 1869 at Clermont- Ferrand and died on the 4th October 1931 in Paris. He was a painter of landscapes and pastels. He studied under Charles Beauverie in Paris. In 1902 he became a member of the highly prestigious ‘Salon des Artistes Francais’ where he received an honourable mention in 1907. He also exhibited at the ‘Salon des Independants’. This painting was formerly part of the William McInnes collection (d. 1944). McInnes, a Glasgow ship owner and close friend of the Scottish Colourist painter George Leslie Hunter...

Stephen DENISON 1909 - 1965 Canvas Size: 20 x 24" (50 x 60cm) Outside Frame size: 27 x 31" (69 x 79cm) Signed and dated 1948 A wonderful example of Modern British art. This Englis...

Laurent Lucien GSELL Picture Size: 19.5 x 24" (48.75 x 60cm) Outside Frame Size : 26.5 x 31 (66.25 x 77.5cm) Free Shipping This is a wonderful example of Gsell's impressionist work...

GYRTH RUSSELL 1892 - 1970 Picture Size: 30 x 24" (76 x 61cm) Outside Frame Size: 38 x 32" (97 x 82cm) Signed bottom left Oil on canvas The canvas is in very good condition and the painting has benefited from a light clean and a varnish. Considered one of the best coastal painters of the 20th century, Gyrth Russell was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in April 1892. At the age of fourteen, Russell began his artistic career at Halifax School of Art, and quickly graduated to the School of Art at Boston, Massachusetts. His first job was as a draughtsman in the Public Works Department of Canada, 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 Russell left Canada to study at the Academie Julian and Academie Calorossi in Paris. In 1914 at the outbreak of War, he 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 landscapes and coasts travelled by the Canadian military during the conflict. During the course of the First World War he worked with amongst others, Augustus John, William Orpen & Frank Brangwyn, who greatly influenced him. Russell enjoyed considerable success between the Wars, exhibiting extensively at the major galleries, and was elected to membership of the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Institute of Painters n Watercolours, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Royal Society of Marine Artists as well as being an active member of the Langham...

Josep Marfa Guarro (1928-2014) Costa Brava Spain Oil on canvas Oil measures 27x35 cm. Frameless. Josep Marfa Guarro (1928-2014) Josep Marfa Guarro was a Catalan painter specialize...

Modernist Southern Magnolia Original Oil Painting Rich hues of emerald green and soft yellow highlights frame Southern Magnolias (“Magnolia Grandiflora”, also known as Bull Bay) in ...

A dramatic mid-century western figurative action scene depicting a shootout in an old western town by Randy Steffen (American, 1917-1977), 1947. Several ...

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