Start a Collection 2019

Messum’s NEW LOCATION: MESSUM’S STUDIO & LORD’S WOOD SCULPTURE GARDEN The Studio, Lord’s Wood, Marlow, Bucks SL7 2QS Tel: +44 (0)1628 486565

A diverse range of paintings and sculpture selected from Messum’s Stock and Studio Estate available at reduced prices for five days only.

Works are available on a ‘first-come-first-serve’ basis from 10:00am Mon 29th July until Friday 2nd August 5:00pm.

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Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn View from Wilfrid de Glehn’s Garden in Stratford Tony oil on canvas 56 x 71 cms 22 x 28 ins £12,850 – Start a Collection Price £6,000

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startacollection 2019 Five-day only exhibition and sale Works are available on a ‘first-come-first-serve’ basis from 10:00am Mon 29th July until Friday 2nd August 5:00pm.

Edwin Alexander RSA RWS RSW 1870–1926 Edwin Alexander developed a fascination with birds and he dedicated himself to wildlife painting. He found his subjects in the country around Musselburgh, Kirkcudbright and the Western Isles, capturing seabirds along the coast and estuaries.

Jeremy Annear Harmonic Totem I oil on canvas 50 x 20 cms 20 x 7⁄4 ins £3,500 – £2,700

Edwin Alexander Seagulls on an Estuary watercolour and gouache on linen 36 x 43 cms 14 x 17 ins £12,850 – £9,500

Jeremy Annear Annear trained at the Exeter College of Art and has taught at art colleges in the South West. He was had several solo shows at Messum’s, in St Ives, and at major German galleries. In the early 1990s he was artist-in-residence at the Atelierhaus Verlag in Worpswede, and visits to Australia introduced him to Aboriginal art, elements of which has influenced his work.

Mia Arnesby Brown 1866–1931 The wife of Sir John Alfred Arnesby Brown, Mia Edwards was born in Monmouthshire and trained with Hubert von Herkomer at Bushey.

In 1894, She exhibited work at the Nottingham Castle Exhibition of Cornish Painters and married two years later. Like Marianne Stokes and Elizabeth Forbes, she excelled at child subjects and exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, the Goupil Gallery and with the Society of Women Artists.

Jeremy Annear Holding Clew VII oil on board 15 x 39 cms 6 x 15⁄4 ins £1,950 – £1,740

Jeremy Annear Turning Point VI oil on canvas 122 x 93 cms 48 x 36½ ins £15,000 – £12,000

Mia Arnesby Brown Child with Daisies oil on canvas 62 x 51 cms 241⁄4 x 201⁄4 ins £18,500 – £9,500

Jake Attree (b. 1950) One of the North’s most acclaimed figurative artists, Jake Attree works out of his studio at Dean Clough in Halifax, an enormous mill complex that once housed Crossley Carpets. Over the past 25 years he has exhibited his work widely throughout the UK, The Netherlands, Germany and the US.

Jeremy Annear Enfolded oil on canvas 75 x 60 cms 29½ x 23½ ins £9,500 – £8,750

Jake Attree The Minster seen from the Mansion House Roof oil on canvas 120 x 150 cms 47¼ x 59 ins £17,400 – £10,200

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Jake Attree The Pale Tower oil on canvas 122 x 60 cms 48 x 23½ ins £7,800 – £4,200

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David Blackburn Blue Landscape, 1995 pastel and collage 45 x 36 cms 17¾ x 14 ins £7,500 – £5,850

David Blackburn Industrial Landscape - West Riding, 1981 pastel 62 x 50 cms 24½ x 19¾ ins £8,500 – £4,500 Jake Attree Baile Hill oil on canvas 55 39 cms 21½ x 15½ ins £5,400 – £2,700

David Blackburn 1939–2016 Constantly balanced between the macro and the microscopic, his glowing pastels express Blake’s “world in a grain of sand” and invert the elemental hierarchies of land, sky, horizon and our own earthbound point of view.

David Blackburn Grey Australia, 1983 pastel and collage 41 x 37 cms 16 x 14½ ins £7,500 – £5,850

David Blackburn Landscape of the Leaf, 1998 pastel 45 x 38 cms 17¾ x 15 ins £6,950 – £4,950

David Blackburn Hang glider and landscape, 1987 pastel 39 x 34 cms 15½ x 13½ ins £6,850 – £4,850

David Blackburn Dry Landscape with Road 1986 pastel 39 x 33 cms 15½ x 13 ins £6,850 – £4,850

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startacollection 2019 Norman Blamey OBE RA ROI 1914–2000 Norman Blamey became best known as a religious painter, but saw himself as a humanist, who specifically saw his sitters as a means to express both the sacred and the mundane. He trained and taught at Regent Street Polytechnic, both before and after WWII. This personal study of his wife Margaret Kelly is posed in their North London flat, and she had earlier modeled for many of Blamey’s postwar social subjects.

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William Brooker (1918-1993)

Brooker had his first solo exhibition in 1955 at Arthur Tooth and Sons, where he continued to exhibit regularly. He also showed at the Royal Academy, the Leicester Gallery, and Agnew’s in London. In 1968 his travels took him to America and Zambia, where he exhibited with William Scott in a show organised by the British Council.

William Brooker The Music Lesson oil on board 41 x 51 cm 16 x 201⁄8 ins £14,500 – £8,500

Norman Blamey A Bay Window in West Hampstead, No 2, 1980 oil on board 321⁄8 x 423⁄4 ins 82 x 109 cms £14,850 – £7,500

William Bowyer RA PP NEAC RP RWS 1926–2015 Now, one of our longest standing Royal Academicians and President of the NEAC for over 30 years, Bowyer began as a Staffordshire ‘Bevin Boy’. He trained at night school, before moving on to the RCA under Ruskin Spear and Carel Weight. His work is marked by a strong sense of place, specifically Chiswick and the Suffolk coast.

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Peter Brown ROI PS NEAC (b. 1966) One of Messum’s most popular and prolific artists, Brown trained at Manchester Polytechnic and Bath. Always painting on site and in all weathers, indeed, wherever the view takes him, he is a familiar figure on the streets of Bath, London, Oxford, Cambridge, Cardiff, Chichester, Henley, and now, Udaipur.

Peter Brown Walberswick, looking towards Southwold Lighthouse oil on canvas 41 x 51 cms 16 x 20 ins £5,820 £4,300

William Bowyer Hammersmith Bridge watercolour 43 x 61 cms 17 x 24 ins £1,450 – £850

Arthur Briscoe (1873-1943)

This stirring painting by the marine artist Arthur Briscoe, depicts one of the most famous of all ships in polar exploration, RSS Discovery, which carried Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton on their 1901–04 Antarctic expedition. Briscoe, a near contemporary of Scott’s, was an avid sailor and writer on sailing, as well as one of the best respected marine artists of the age.

Arthur Briscoe Cutting through the Ice oil on canvas 56 x 66 cms 22 x 26 ins £14,850 – £7,500

Peter Brown Southwold Beach, July Morning oil on canvas 51 x 64 cms 20 x 25 ins £9,500 – £7,800

Peter Brown Southwold Beach, Summer Cloud Shadows oil on canvas 51 x 64 cms 20 x 25 ins £9,500 – £7,800

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Lionel Bulmer NEAC (1919–1992) The son of an architect, Bulmer trained at Clapham art school before WWII. Afterwards, he enrolled at the RCA where he met his partner Margaret Green. They became inspirational teachers and inseparable throughout their artistic careers, which they spent largely in Chelsea and West Suffolk.

Lionel Bulmer In the Dunes oil on canvas 122 x 91 cms 48 x 36 ins £15,850 – £9,500

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Lionel Bulmer Windbreaks gouache on paper 24 x 18 cms 9¼ x 7 ins £1,500 – £950

Simon Carter b.1961 Carter’s Essex landscapes illustrate the act of painting as much as they do place. He contends that painting is about illustrating visual observation, which is in itself a process that develops from looking and sketching to painting itself. It is through the act of painting, of coordinating colours and making marks, that the artist’s interpretation of space and its visual elements emerges.

Simon Carter Five Swimmers acrylic on canvas 117 x 127 cms 461⁄8 x 50 ins £15,450 – £7,800

Lionel Bulmer After a Swim oil on canvas 61 x 61 cms 24 x 24 ins £8,500 – £5,500

Lionel Bulmer Beach Scene, Seaton Carew oil on canvas 122 x 91 cms 48 x 36 ins £14,500 – £9,500

Simon Carter Essex Coast, Seawall acrylic on canvas 130 x 160 cms 51 x 63 ins £16,800 – £7,900

Simon Carter Orange Sky acrylic on canvas 60 x 72 cms 23½ x 28 ins £4,800 – £4,000

Lionel Bulmer Beach Towel gouache on paper 24 x 18 cms 9¼ x 7 ins £1,500 – £950

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John Collett b.1961 Collett was an English satirical painter, born in London about 1725, the son of a gentleman. He was a pupil of Lambert, and studied at the art school in St. Martin’s Lane. Collet represented scenes of debauchery, low life, and social weaknesses and absurdities, in the manner of Hogarth

Simon Carter Pink and Green I acrylic on canvas 25 x 30 cms 10 x 11¾ ins £1,740 – £1,140

John Collett Fashion Victim (a pair) I oil on canvas 34 x 27 cms 13½ x 10½ ins £14,850 – £3,850 (the pair)

Simon Carter Grey Cloud and Grey North Sea acrylic on canvas 25 x 30 cms 10 x 11¾ ins £1,740 – £1,140

Simon Carter Beaumont Quay III acrylic on canvas 25 x 30 cms 10 x 11¾ ins £1,740 – £1,140

John Collett The Triple Plea (a pair) I oil on canvas 34 x 27 cms 13½ x 10½ ins

Simon Carter White Cloud acrylic on canvas 25 x 30 cms 10 x 11¾ ins £1,740 – £1,140

Jane Corsellis NEAC RWS RCA b.1940 From prize-winning student at the Byam Shaw School of Art to mainstay of the New English Art Club, Corsellis is well respected among her peers and has enjoyed a glittering and far-flung career. She has lived in Spain, Hong Kong, Canada and Malaysia, but more recent subjects emanate from travels closer to home; in London, Cornwall, her home in West Wales, in Venice and Florence and with family and friends in the South of France.

Lionel Townsend Crawshaw RSW RBSA 1864–1949 Crawshaw read law at Cambridge before becoming a painter, having been encouraged by Benjamin Leader After some initial training at Weymouth, he studied at Dusseldorf, Karlsruhe and the Académie Colorossi, before travelling to Berlin, Bavaria and the Rhineland. In 1903, he moved to Whitby, where he lived (off and on) for nearly forty years, as well as at Doncaster and later, Edinburgh.

Lionel Townsend Crawshaw Summer Holidays,Whitby, c. 1920 oil on canvas 50 x 64 cms 191⁄2 x 251⁄4 ins £18,500 – £14,500

Jane Corsellis Freshly Caught Lobster oil on board 25 x 38 cms 97⁄8 x 15 ins £4,620 – £2,950 Enquire / Reserve / Buy

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Nancy Delouis The overwhelming delight of Delouis’s paintings comes from the liberating power of colour and form, her interior scenes and still lifes incorporate the exotic and the exquisite, interweaving patterns and textures. Infused with light and saturated colours, in most respects her work is purely French, following in the same aesthetic tradition of Bonnard and Vuillard.

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Nancy Delouis Les Tissus Rouges pastel 50 x 33 cms 19½ x13 ins £5,850 – £5,100

Nancy Delouis Une Proposition oil on canvas 81 x 100 cms 32 x 39½ ins £15,850 – £11,400

Nancy Delouis Deux Femmes pastel 33 x 22 cms 13 x 8½ ins £5,850 – £5,100

Nancy Delouis Le Chignon oil on canvas 92 x 73 cms 36 x 28¾ ins £15,850 – £11,400 Laurence Edwards One of the few sculptors who casts his own work, Laurence Edwards is fascinated by human anatomy and the metamorphosis of form and matter that governs the lost-wax process. The driving force behind his work is bronze, an alloy that physically and metaphorically illustrates entropy, the natural tendency of any system in time to tend towards disorder and chaos. His sculptures express the raw liquid power of bronze, its versatility, mass and evolution, and the variety of process marks he retains tell the story of how and why each work came to be.

Nancy Delouis Comme une Icône oil on canvas 41 x 33 cms 16 x 13 ins £6,850 – £5,950

Laurence Edwards Chthonic Head I

Nancy Delouis Le Pichet Bleu pastel 35 x 52 cms 13¾ x 20½ ins £6,500 – £5,820

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Peter Fleming NEAC b.1949 London-born, Fleming trained at Hammersmith, where he has been a visiting tutor for 35 years, teaching mainly at Chelsea College of Art and Design. His subjects are mostly interiors: investigations into the transformative power of light on familiar spaces. In 2006, Fleming’s painting New Morning was awarded the Cecil Jospe Prize in the NEAC’s Annual Open Exhibition.

Laurence Edwards Brooding Man I broze, an ed. of 8 183 x 66 x 58 cms 72 x 26 x 23 ins

Peter Fleming Spring Scaffolding (Studio Window) tempera on board 102 x 64 cms 40 x 251⁄4 ins £3,120 – £1,440 Laurence Edwards Brooding Man II broze, an ed. of 8 178 x 58 x 58 cms 70 x 23 x 23 ins £39,000 - £27,000

Edmund G. Fuller fl. 1893-1904 RBA RWA Alternately described as “painter, architect, comic artist and metal worker”, Fuller distinguished himself in all these disciplines, but it was as a marine artist that he achieved the highest renown. He first started exhibiting his work in 1888 and a few years later moved to St Ives. His studio overlooking the harbour was large enough for him to pursue both metalwork and painting.

Andrew Festing RP MBE, b.1941 After serving in The Rifle Brigade, and working at Sotheby’s, Festing (who is self-taught) turned to portraiture. His commissions include official portraits of HM The Queen; Baroness Boothroyd; English cricket greats of the last 40 years; and the staff at Holkham Hall, among many others.

Andrew Festing Coast by the Pagana, near Portofino, Genoa III oil on board 31 x 41 cms 12 x 16 ins £3,000 – £1,320

Edmund G. Fuller Offloading the Catch oil on canvas 61 x 92 cms 24 x 36 ins £12,500 –

William Gilbert Foster RBA 1855–1906 Senior member of the Staithes Group of artists, he had a studio at Runswick for many years. He painted landscapes and rural genre in oil and watercolours. Born in Manchester. A self-taught artist, apart from some instruction from his father, a portrait painter. Scenes of the Yorkshire coast were his favourite subject. Exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy (forty times) and at the Royal society of British.

William Gilbert Foster The Silver Stream oil on canvas 86 x 152 cms 34 x 60 ins £16,850 – £9,500

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startacollection 2019 Anthony Gilbert 1916–1925 One of the last great designer-illustrators of British advertising, Gilbert trained at Goldsmiths, and worked for J. Walter Thompson, where he contributed to major advertising campaigns, including Rowntree’s, Horlicks, and Rose’s Lime Juice; his design for After Eight mints is still used by Nestlé. Later, he became a successful illustrator for Vogue, drawing fashions modeled by his wife, Ann.

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Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn RA 1870–1951 The last and one of the best British Impressionists, de Glehn’s long career as a portraitist and painter was heavily influenced by his close friendship with John Singer Sargent, his in-depth knowledge of French art (particularly the Rococo) and his love for travel.

Anthony Gilbert Still Life, Laquered Cup and Apple mixed media on board 21 x 16 cms 81⁄4 x 61⁄4 ins £2,450 – £1,500

Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn Interior Scene with Vase of Roses and Porcelain Figure groups on Table oil on canvas 46 x 61 cms 183⁄8 x 24 ins £8,500 – £3,250

Anthony Gilbert Still Life Silhouette pen and ink 48 x 36 cms 19 x 14 ins £3,250 – £1,850

Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn Portrait of Clare Collins, 1927 oil on canvas 76 x 59 cms 297⁄8 x 23 ins £24,500 – £14,500

Anthony Gilbert Doing her Hair coloured pen 24 x 16 cms 9¼ x 6¼ ins £2,450 – £1,650

Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn Youth, 1925 oil on canvas 76 x 63 cms 30 x 24¾ ins £26,500 – £14,500

Anthony Gilbert Brown and Red Patterned Lady coloured pen 23 x 16 cms 9 x 6¼ ins £2,450 – £1,500

Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn View from Wilfrid de Glehn’s Garden in Stratford Tony oil on canvas 56 x 71 cms 22 x 28 ins £12,850 – £6,000

Anthony Gilbert Noel mixed media 43 x 22 cms 17 x 8½ ins £3,650 – £1,950

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startacollection 2019 Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn Blue Hydrangeas, 1906 oil on canvas 76 x 63 cms 30 x 24¾ ins £26,500 – £14,500

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Margaret Green NEAC 1925–2003 Green met her life-long companion, Lionel Bulmer, at the RCA, where she had won a scholarship. They shared studios at Chelsea and Suffolk, and she regularly exhibited her work at the RA and the NEAC. Her paintings are now in the Tate, the Government Art Collection and many public galleries. Messum’s exclusively represents her Studio Estate.

Margaret Green Interior at Elm Park Gardens oil on canvas 51 x 61 cms 201⁄8 x 24 ins £7,850 – £3,850

Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn Nancy Woodward, London oil on canvas 76 x 63 cms 30 x 24¾ ins £16,500 – £9,500

Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn On the Seine watercolour 41 x 51 cms 16 x 20 ins £4,850 – £3,850

Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn Vieux Port, Normandy watercolour 41 x 51 cms 16 x 20 ins £4,850 – £3,850

Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn Notre Dame de Paris (recto): Stained Glass designs for Hill House Church, Epping (verso), 1912 watercolour 40 x 50 cms 153⁄8 x 19¾ ins £7,850 – £2,950

Margaret Green Ironing oil on board 51 x 61 cms 201⁄8 x 24 ins £6,850 – £2,850

Margaret Green In the Park oil on board 64 x 71 cms 25 x 28 ins £8,850 – £3,850

Margaret Green Garden’s Blossom through the French Window oil on board 76 x 51 cms 30 x 20 ins £8,500 – £3,850

Margaret Green Playground oil on canvassed board 27 x 20 cms 10¾ x 8 ins £4,850 – £2,500

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Peter Greenham RA NEAC 1909–1992 Throughout the 1970s, Greenham painted subtle, atmospheric Norfolk seascapes and beach scenes. Combining draughtsmanship with sensitive brushwork and luminous colour, his later work has a depth and spontaneity comparable to his portraiture.

Nancy Haig Two Fishing Boats on the Shore pencil 39 x 56 cms 153⁄8 x 22 ins £1,450 – £850

Peter Greenham Beach Scene in Summer oil on board 25 x 31 cms 97⁄8 x 121⁄4 ins £6,850 – £4,850

Arthur Hacker RA 1858 - 1919 The son of an engraver, Arthur Hacker studied at the Royal Academy between 1867 and 1880, and at the Atelier Bonnat in Paris. He began exhibiting at the Royal Academy at the age of twenty, soon attracting public notice. He became an associate of the Royal Academy in 1893 and a full member in 1910.

Arthur Hacker King Charles Monument, Whitehall watercolour and gouache on board 32 x 40 cms 12½ x 15¾ ins £6,850 – £2,850

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Nancy Haig Parc de St. Cloud gouache 50 x 65 cms 19½ x 25½ ins £1,450 – £850

Philip Hicks (b. 1928) Hicks trained at Chelsea and the RA Schools, and throughout the 1970s and ‘80s he explored abstraction, but since 1990, his work has been figurative, mostly inspired by his Oxfordshire home. In 2013, Times art critic, John Russell Taylor published a monograph of his work and career.

Nancy Haig 1917–2001 Nancy Haig was a member of the famous Haig family of distillers, whose advertising slogan “Don’t be vague, ask for Haig” was world famous.

Nancy went to study painting at the St John’s Wood Art School, then under the inspired co-headship of Pat Millard, and there she made friends with her fellow-students Jane Levenson and John Minton.

Nancy Haig Farmyard with Chickens pen & wash 38 x 56 cms 15 x 22 ins £1,450 – £850

Philip Hicks The Leaves have Fallen oil on canvas 76 x 102 cms 30 x 40 ins £9,500 – £4,380

Philip Hicks Serenade to Autumn II oil on canvas 80 x 80 cms 31½ x 31½ ins £7,500 – £4,740

Philip Hicks Serenade to Autumn III oil on canvas 80 x 80 cms 31½ x 31½ ins £7,500 – £4,740

Nancy Haig Still Life with Oil Lamp pen & wash 49 x 60 cms 191⁄4 x 235⁄8 ins £1,600 – £950

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Philip Hicks Rusticana No. 1 oil on canvas 51 x 76 cms 20 x 30 ins £4,380 – £2,340

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Rose Hilton Lucy oil on canvas 76 x 51 cms 30 x 20 ins £16,500 – £9,500

Philip Hicks Rusticana No. 1I oil on canvas 46 x 61 cms 18 x 24 ins £4,380 – £2,340

Rose Hilton Red Still Life oil on canvas 76 x 51 cms 30 x 20 ins £18,500 – £10,500

Philip Hicks Solar Power IV oil on canvas 102 x 76 cms 40 x 30 ins £9,000 – £5,100

Rose Hilton Into the Night oil on canvas 51 x 61 cms 20 x 24 ins £7,375 – £4,500

Philip Hicks Birds Eye View No. 3 oil on canvas 43 x 53 cms 17 x 21 ins £3,180 – £1,740

Rose Hilton (1931-2019) Despite her parents’ opposition, as a teenager, Hilton enrolled at the RCA where she immediately excelled. While marriage to Roger Hilton delayed her career, after his death, she gave herself over wholly to painting. Inspired by the French School and her Cornish home, she is now internationally recognised as a major St Ives artist and is represented exclusively by Messum’s.

Brian Horton (b. 1933) Horton was educated at Shrewsbury School and Exeter College, Oxford. Following his National Service, he enrolled at Cheltenham College of Art, where he met his wife, Sheila. He has shown his work at the RA, the Royal Watercolour Society and in several solo shows with Messum’s. Last year Studio Publications published a monograph of his work with text by Andrew Lambirth.

Brian Horton River Valley, Clouds Parting, Nr. Dolgellau gouache 36 x 44 cms 14 x 17½ ins £4,380 – £2,220

Rose Hilton Beach II, 2014 oil on canvas 46 x 61 cms 18 x 24 ins £10,000 – £6,500

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startacollection 2019 Brian Horton Cornfield Edge, Cotswolds gouache 35 x 43 cms 13¾ x 17 ins £4,620 – £2,340

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David Jaundrell David Jaundrell’s paintings are inspired by the boats and boatyards he explores on his travels around the coast, particularly Cornwall and Suffolk. David has exhibited throughout the UK as at all the major Academies.

David Jaundrell St Ives Coastal Scene and Fishing Boat mixed media 25 x 25 cms 9¾ x 9¾ ins £550 – £300

Brian Horton Summer River with Trees and Hills, Nr. Dolgellau gouache 53 x 65 cms 21 x 25 ins £7,020 – £3,600

David Jaundrell Boat and moonlight mixed media 7½ x 15 cms 3 x 6 ins £450 – £225

Brian Horton River Banks and Shallows, Rivery Towy, Carmarthen gouache 40 x 47 cms 15¾ x 18½ ins £5,100 – £2,700

George Leslie Hunter (1877 - 1931) This tabletop arrangement of a ‘famille rose’ vase, a rose, bowl of fruit and a deep blue shawl probably dates to just after 1925, based on the similarities of the background (split between the pale panelled wall and richly patterned curtain) which appears to have been directly inspired

by Matisse’s picture. In the later 1920s when Hunter lived at Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Cassis and Saint-Tropez, his style shifted to brighter palettes and he used thinner, less Cezannesque brushwork, which revealed his often unprimed supports.

George Leslie Hunter Still Life with Fruit, a Rose and a Pink Vase, 1925 oil on board 69 x 51 cms 27 x 18½ ins £168,500 – £125,000

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David Jaundrell Fishing Boat by Moonlight mixed media 15 x 15 cms 6 x 6 ins £450 – £225

David Jaundrell Beach Scene mixed media 12½ x 20 cms 5 x 8 ins £450 – £225

Lucy Kemp Welch Lucy Kemp-Welch’s fascination with animals was not limited to the portrayal of horses. Through her special affection for the working horse she became familiar with other agricultural animals and the labourers and farmers who tended them. Over the span of her long career Kemp Welch created many elegant depictions of agricultural animals often rendered in watercolour or pastel.

Lucy Kemp-Welch Three Calves in an Orchard watercolour 23 x 32 cms 8¾ x 12½ ins £8,500 – £7,250

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Geoffrey Key b. 1941 Key painted this view of Manchester’s Piccadilly in his studio, based on sketches made from the window of Woolworth’s upstairs café. The store is no longer there and the view is very different today. At this early stage in his career, Key was often referred to as a close successor to L. S. Lowry, and indeed, in its tones and treatment of cityscape, Key’s work is strongly reminiscent.

Eardley Knollys Crofton Hall Lake oil on canvas 53 x 69 cms 21 x 27 ins £8,850 – £4,850

Geoffrey Key Piccadilly, Manchester, 1965 oil on board 91 x 122 cms 36 x 48 ins £29,400 – £22,200

Dame Laura Knight DBE RA RWS 1877–1970 Just before the outbreak of WWII, Laura Knight lived at Malvern, and became part of the creative circle that gathered each summer for Barry Jackson’s Festival. Based at the Mount Pleasant Hotel and the Park Hotel in nearby Colwall, festivalgoers often amused themselves by taking donkey rides over the Malvern Hills, renting the animals from local eccentrics like Alice Betteridge, who Knight included, along with her pony Kitty, in this panoramic view looking towards Wales.

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Eardley Knollys Tulips oil on canvas 66 x 51 cms 26 x 20 ins £7,850 – £4,500

Henry Herbert La Thangue 1859-1929 RA NEAC La Thangue himself became an influential figure. After returning to England he settled near the Norfolk Broads for a while, and helped found the New English Art Club, which put on its own exhibitions in competition with the Royal Academy.

Henry Herbert La Thangue A Poor French Family oil on canvas 114 x 100 cms 45 x 40 ins £85,000 – £45,000

Dame Laura Knight On the Hill Top, 1939 oil on canvas 64 x 76 cms 25 x 297⁄8 ins £28,500 – £12,500

Eardley Knollys 1902–1991 A man of many talents, Knollys tried his hand at many things - even directing silent films in Hollywood - before becoming a respected critic and art dealer. He was celebrated for his taste and style and, together with Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Raymond Martinez, Edward SackvilleWest and Patrick Trevor-Roper, he formed a noted salon.

Walter Langley 1852-1922 RI RSA RBA RWA When Langley settled in Newlyn, he left behind in Birmingham a reasonably lucrative partnership in a printing firm. He decided to quit lithography to devote himself wholeheartedly to becoming a watercolourist. Within a remarkably short time, Langley was enjoying considerable success with his carefully observed, often highly detailed works, that belied the speed with which he painted them.

Eardley Knollys Still Life with Pears oil on canvas 76 x 64 cms 30 x 25 ins £9,850 – £7,500

Walter Langley Grace watercolour 24 x 17 cms 9½ x 6¾ ins £14,500 – £12,500

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Richard Hayley Lever 1876–1958 Australian-born, at the age of seventeen, he left to train in Europe and was soon exhibiting his work in London and Paris. In 1900, fellow Australian Louis Grier introduced him to the St Ives, where he worked with Grier and Julius Olsson. Lever also painted on the South Coast, in Brittany and the Hudson River Valley.

Richard Hayley Lever Sunset oil on canvas 27 x 34 cms 101⁄2 x 131⁄2 ins £9,850 – £4,500

Martyn R. Mackrill Homeward: Brixham Trawler approaching Bolt Head oil on canvas 71 x 107 cms 28 x 42 ins £15,000 – £10,200

Martyn R. Mackrill The Big Class 1930 oil on canvas 76 x 127 cms 30 x 50 ins £27,000 – £19,800

Richard Hayley Lever Fishing Boats off the Shore oil on canvas 46 x 61 cms 18 x 24 ins £9,850

Thomas Luny 1759–1837 By 1807, when Luny moved from London to Teignmouth, the Devon fishing port had become a preferred holiday spot of the Georgian literati, with artists and writers arriving in regular pursuit of fresh air and inspiration. He built Luny House as his studio/home and made coastal, and his stock in trade became shipping and naval subjects. Dated 1829, this picture shows the enduring influence of Francis Holman, with whom Luny had trained in London.

Thomas Luny Unloading the Catch oil on canvas 51 x 71 cms 20 x 28 ins £22,500 – £14,500

Martyn R. Mackrill Solent Sunlight oil on canvas 41 x 51 cms 16 x 20 ins £3,900 – £2,220

Martyn R. Mackrill Winter Storage oil on board 41 x 31 cms 16 x 12 ins £3,180 – £2,220

Martyn R. Mackrill Black Jack oil on board 31 x 41 cms 12 x 16 ins £3,180 – £2,220

Martin R. Mackrill b.1962 Born on the Isle of Wight, where he now lives, Mackrill grew up around boats and harbours, and is a keen yachtsman. He trained at Portsmouth Art College and Sunderland Polytechnic and his pictures recreate the golden age of sailing, when fast, flawlessly lined boats owned by the rich and powerful were skippered and crewed by local fishermen, motivated as much by competition as prize money.

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Paul Fordyce Maitland NEAC 1863–1909 Paul Fordyce Maitland, born in 1863 was a pupil of the French émigré, Theodore Roussel, was among the select group of British artists in the 1889 London Impressionists exhibition at the Goupil Galleries, one of the first moments that Impressionism was linked to painting in Britain.

Through Roussel, Maitland became interested in different means of conveying space and atmospheric effect.

Paul Fordyce Maitland A Corner of Kensington Gardens oil on canvas 31 x 41 cms 12 x 16 ins £13,850 – £8,500 Hugh McKenzie 1909–2005 Hugh McKenzie’s watercolour drawings record the changing face of London during a period of immense architectural upheaval, his knowledge of architecture—by all accounts formidable—was born not of dry historical study but came from his years of experience working with the fire service, which he did throughout the war years and for some time beyond.

Manchester School, 20th C. Dancing Girls oil on canvas £4,850 – £1,850

June Miles b.1924 June was the wife of Paul Feiler, the Internationally renowned modernist painter from the St Ives School, from 1946 until her divorce from him in 1967. During this period she painted as June Feiler, changing to her maiden name of June Miles after that. She married the sculptor Paul Mount in 1978.

June Miles Still Life with a Vase of Flowers 36 x 30 cms 14 x 12 ins £1,250 – £650

Hugh McKenzie The City, 1969 oil on board 46 x 61 cms 18 x 24 ins £3,180 – £1,540

Hugh McKenzie Grotes Buildings, Blackheath, 1969 oil on board 37 x 45 cms 14 x 17 ins £2,700 – £1,540

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John Miller 1931–2002 In the 1970s and 1980s Miller travelled a great deal around the Mediterranean. There he became fascinated by the strong sunlight that renders shadows as intensely dark as the light is bright. These experiences loosened his brushwork and brought a new intensity of colour to his paintings of Cornwall. In 1995 he moved from Sancreed to Lelant and he is perhaps best known for his paintings inspired by early morning walks along the beach at Port Kidney.

John Miller Paleokastritsa Courtyard oil on canvas 61 x 61 cms 24 x 24 ins £8,850 – £3,250

Hugh McKenzie Cutty Sark watercolour 21 x 32 cms 8 x 12½ ins £950 – £650

Hugh McKenzie Shipping on the Thames at Woolwich pen, ink and watercolour 34 x 49 cms 13 x 19 ins £1,250 – £850

John Miller Parthenon oil on canvas 61 x 61 cms 24 x 24 ins £8,850 – £3,250

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startacollection 2019 John Miller Cornflowers in the border oil on canvas 56 x 76 cms 22 x 30 ins £8,500 – £3,250

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Nicolas Moreton A superb sculptor, Nicholas Moreton was elected a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors in 1995. One senses though, that however important his profession Clearly Moreton’s relationship with tradition is as ambiguous as his relationship with modernism. His most obvious way of embracing tradition in a world of installations and assemblages was to return exclusively to carving.

Nicolas Moreton Our Mark upon Existence ancaster weatherbed limestone 250 x 76 x 60 cms 98 x 30 x 23 ins £42,000 – £27,000

John Miller Poolfroom Reflection oil on canvas 46 x 51 cms 18 x 20 ins £4,850 – £2,500

Nicolas Moreton In the Fullness of Time portland roach limestone 127 x 30 x 27 cms 50 x 11¾ x 10½ ins £15,000 – £11,400

John Miller Land’s End oil on canvas 51 x 57 cms 20 x 22 ins £5,250 – £2,500

John Miller Evening Yacht Passing oil on canvas 91 x 86 cms 36 x 34 ins £14,850 – £9,500

Nicolas Moreton Snapdragon portugese marble 24 x 38 x 6 cms 9½ x 15 x 2ins £2,100 – £1,020

Nicolas Moreton Toward Totality (Coming Together) Welsh slate and marble 66 x 83 x 20cms 26 x 33 x 8 ins £7,800 – £4,620

John Miller Quiet Bay oil on canvas 91 x 86 cms 36 x 34 ins £14,850 – £9,500

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Norman Neasom RWS RBSA 1915–2010 There is a heartfelt Englishness about Norman Neasom’s paintings, something about his work that speaks in a poetic way about English village life, about farming in the hills, about locals teasing each other in the pub, that reminds us what it feels like to be hefted to this land. Our humour and modesty, our dotty fascinations, and the beauty of our landscape – Neasom captures them all.

Nicolas Moreton Eclipse V Portugese marble and Belgium black marble 20 x 18 x 12cms 7½ x 7 x 5 ins £1,320 – £900

John Morgan RBA 1823–1886 John Morgan, father of the more well known Frederick Morgan (c.

1847–1927), trained in Paris with Couture and Delaroche. Based on the success of his picture The Jury (1861, Aylesbury) and his habit of signing his works ‘J. Morgan’, he became known as “Jury Morgan”. He was primarily a genre painter, as influenced by the work of William Powell Frith, and he excelled at children subjects, such as Winter Landscape with Boys Snowballing (Victoria & Albert Museum).

John Morgan Kiss Me oil on canvas 92 x 72 cms 36½ x 28½ ins £38,500 – £26,500

Norman Neasom Beer Belly in the Brook at Elcocks Brook, 1998 pencil and wash 18 x 17 cms 7¼ x 6½ ins £2,450 – £1,450

Norman Neasom The Old Man of Axmouth 1990 pencil and wash 32 x 23 cms 12½ x 9 ins £2,650 – £1,650

Carlos Nadal 1917–1998 Termed “the last of the Fauves”, as a young man Carols Nadal knew Braque, Matisse, Marquet, Dufy, Utrillo, and even Picasso.

Born in Barcelona, he studied under Ossip Zadkine in Paris and his internationally acclaimed work, marked by a naïve intensity, is often compared to that of Raoul Dufy.

Norman Neasom The Smokers, 2003 pencil and wash 19 x 22 cms 7½ x 8½ ins £2,650 – £1,850

Carlos Nadal Brussels Market mixed media on paper 22 x 30 cms 85⁄8 x 113⁄4 ins £6,850 – £3,250 Norman Neasom Seen at the Bar,Woodland Cottage, 2001 pencil and wash 29 x 13 cms 8 x 4½ ins £2,450 – £1,750

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startacollection 2019 Winifred Nicholson 1873 - 1981 NEAC Over the past few years Winifred Nicholson (1893-1981) has justifiably re-emerged from the shadow of her internationally renowned husband Ben to be once again fully recognized as a significant and highly collectable artist. As one contemporary critic observed as early as 1927, she probably had ‘no equal among modern British painters as a colourist of the most exquisite refinement.’

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David Parfitt ARCA NEAC b.1943 David Parfitt grew up in Blaenavon, a former Welsh mining town. He studied painting and drawing at Newport College of Art and at the RCA where he won various scholarships and prizes. These included travel scholarships to Italy and France. For 50 years, he has lived on Strand-on-the-Green, and this part of leafy riverside Chiswick inspires much of his current work.

Winifred Nicholson Sandeig,Wooded Landscape oil on board 23 x 38 cms 9 x 14¾ ins £12,500 – £6,500

Winifred Nicholson Camma Lilies at Marakesh, 1971 pastel 24 x 34 cms 9½ x 13¾ ins £8,500 – £4,500

John Wright Oakes 1820–1887 This view of a Lancashire coastal village dates to early in Oakes’s career, before his move to London, when he painted around Liverpool, North Wales and Cheshire. From 1839, he exhibited regularly at the Liverpool Academy, was elected Associate in 1847, and that same year first exhibited in London. While he first worked in a Pre-Raphaelite style, following his move to London in 1859 he shifted towards the painterly realism of Benjamin Williams Leader and Vicat Cole.

John Wright Oakes Hazy morning at Heysham, Lancashire, 1869 oil on canvas 76 x 103 cms 297⁄8 x 401⁄2 ins £12,500 – £5,500

Julius Olsson RA RBA PROI RWA NEAC 1864–1942 One of Britain’s foremost marine painters, Olsson was almost entirely self-taught. He learned to paint from works he saw in galleries and museums in London and Paris. He painted outdoors and then refined his studies into finished paintings back in his studio, working in a style balanced between Realism and Impressionism.

David Parfitt Across the River, February, Dusk oil on canvas 122 x 91 cms 48 x 357⁄8 ins £11,820 – £6,600

David Parfitt Strand Spring, Low Tide oil on canvas 41 x 51 cms 16 x 201⁄8 ins £2,940 – £1,620

David Parfitt Drinking at the Pub, Near Sundown oil on board 17 x 20 cms 6¾ x 8 ins £1,020 – £660

David Parfitt Palms and Pub Goers oil on board 31 x 31 cms 12 x12 ins £1,740 – £1,140

Julius Olsson The Needles at the Entrance to the Solent oil on canvas 61 x 77 cms 24 x 30 ins £8,500 Enquire / Reserve / Buy

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startacollection 2019 Frank Phelan b.1932 Phelan’s work was shaped above all by his time in St Ives during the 1960s, when he was an artist-in-residence at Trevaylor, Nancy WynneJones’s ‘artist’s colony’ at nearby Gulvel. There, he met and befriended the likes of Roger Hilton, Terry Frost, Tony O’Malley and Peter Lanyon. Although boldly, abstract, his work is far more sensual than analytical, even when, as in some works, he appears to deliberately challenge our perceptions of space, colour and light.

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John Robertson Reid RI ROI 1851–1926 Born in Edinburgh and trained at the Royal Scottish Academy Schools, Reid was a painter of genre, landscape and coastal scenes. He moved to the West Country, painting frequently from Beare in Devon, and later to London, where his painting Toil and Pleasure was shown at the Royal Academy in 1879, and bought for the nation by the Chantrey Bequest.

John Robertson Reid His Latest Catch oil on canvas 112 x 128 cms 441⁄8 x 501⁄4 ins £28,500 – £12,500

Frank Phelan Tantalus, 2012 oil and charcoal on canvas 51 x 61 cms 201⁄8 x 24 ins £10,620 – £3,420

Pam Poskitt b.1924 Poskitt developed her work and technique in relative isolation. For most of her life she divided her time in Scarborough between farming and art.

Inspired by the great collage artists, Schwitters and Tapíes, she also uses found objects and torn edges to achieve unusual surfaces and forms.

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Zsuzsi Roboz FRSA PS 1929–2012 A remarkably innovative and engaging artist Zsuzsi Roboz’s work ranged from collage, to pastel drawings and oils, all of which indicated her sensitive eye for “inner life”, and the surreal. She came to England from Budapest in 1947 and studied at the RA Schools under Peter Greenham, and later in Florence with Pietro Annigoni. Her work is now in the Tate, the Theatre Museum, the Royal Festival Hall and the National Portrait Gallery.

Pam Poskitt River Landscape mixed media & collage on board 31 x 41 cms 12 x 161⁄8 ins £1,850 – £500

Zsuzsi Roboz Nude Study oil on canvas 137 x 76 cms 54 x 30 ins £1,850

Agustí Puig b.1957 There may be few more passionate defences of painting in today’s over-conceptualised art world than the work of Agusti Puig. Blending ancient and modern, it proves the continuing power of the medium to thrill and surprise us.

Augusti Puig Untitled, 2005 mixed media on canvas 130 x 97 cms 51 x 38 ins £11,820 – £3,420

Augusti Puig Sense Titol, 2003 mixed media on canvas 65 x 85 cms 25½ x 33½ ins £4,850 – £2,850

Zsuzsi roboz Official Happiness mixed media on paper 51 x 66 cms 20 x 26 ins £1,850 – £1,200

Zsuzsi Roboz The Green Boy, Evening pastel on paper 61 x 51 cms 24 x 20 ins £950 – £750

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Ken Smith b. 1944 Ken is inspired and motivated by his own family, the closeness of it and the suffering of various minorities, both ethnic and social. His time spent with the Franciscan monks and his years and a social worked have driven Ken to explore his spirituality in his sculpture. These themes and the human form are prominent in his work, although often in an abstract manner.

Zsuzsi Roboz Contemplation mixed media on paper 61 x 46 cms 24 x 18 ins £1,250 – £950

Ken Smith Water Carrier bronze, ed. of 9 20 x 24 x 14 cms 8 x 9½ x 4½ ins £4,850 – £3,000

Zsuzsi Roboz Writer’s Block II mixed media on paper 61 x 46 cms 24 x 18 ins £1,250 – £950

Mick Rooney RA b.1974 Born in 1944 and studied at Sutton and Wimbledon Colleges of Art, the Royal College of Art and The British School in Rome. He has taught at several art colleges in the UK and has been Head of Painting at the Royal Academy Schools. He was elected Royal Academician in 1991.

Mick Rooney Into the Hands of Strangers oil on board 128 x 98 cms 503⁄8 x 385⁄8 ins £12,500 – £4,500

John Thomas Serres 1759–1825 Serres first trained under his father, Dominic Serres RA (1722– 1793), a Gascon painter who came to London as a prisoner of war and later established himself as one of the most successful marine painters of his day. Serres swiftly surpassed his father, exhibiting his own work at the Academy by 1776, and upon his death, succeeding him as Marine Painter to King George III.

Ken Smith Japanese Female bronze, ed. of 12 20 cms high 8 ins high £4,850 – £3,000

Ken Smith Kiss alabaster 22 cms high 8½ ins high £5,400 – £3,420

Ken Smith Warrior bronze, an edition of 12 45 x 26 x 16 cms 17¾ x 10 x 6ins £9,600 – £5,400

John Thomas Serres Shipping off Ferrol, Portugal, 1815 oil on canvas 61 x 91 cms 24 x 357⁄8 ins £16,850 – £8,500 Enquire / Reserve / Buy

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Peggy Somerville 1918–1975 A child prodigy, Somerville was born into an artistic family and learned to paint by watching them. When she was three, her watercolours and drawings were exhibited at the Royal Drawing Society in London.

When she was nine, Sir John Lavery helped to organise a her London retrospective. Later, she trained briefly at the RA, but for most of her career, she painted independently in the Suffolk village she moved to with her mother after WWII.

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Philip Wilson Steer Southampton Water, 191 oil on canvas 51 x 81 cm 20 x 32 ins £19,850 – £10,500

Mary Stork (1938 - 2007) At the Slade, Mary met and married the West Cornwall artist Jeremy Le Grice, and they returned to the county to live at St Just. It was here that she met Roger and Rose Hilton and Mary and Rose went on to become close friends and painting companions.

Peggy Sommerville Dutch Canal Scene oil on board 46 x 36 cms 18 x 14 ins £1,650 – £950

Mary Stork Grace pastel and mixed media 74 x 51 cm 29 x 20 ins £1,250 – £850

Ruskin Spear CBE RA NEAC 1911–1990 One of the most acclaimed artists and influential teachers of the post-war era, Spear was born in Hammersmith and as a child suffered from polio, which left him confined to a wheelchair. He trained at RCA and taught there from 1948 to 1975. In 1980, the RA hosted his retrospective.

Edward William Stott ARA NEAC 1859–1918 Throughout the 1890s and the early 1900s, Stott took his inspiration from the countryside near Amberley in West Sussex, where he had moved in 1889. Immersed in day-to-day village life, he never painted directly from nature, and his approach to rustic genre subjects is more sentimental than realistic. Nevertheless, like many British artists at the time, he was influenced by French rural naturalism, as typified in works

by Jean-François Millett, whose figures bent by poverty and toil were tempered by a subtle anonymity.

Ruskin Spear The Enthusiast oil on board 51 x 76 cms 201⁄8 x 297⁄8 ins £28,500 – £17,500

Philip Wilson Steer OM 1860–1942 One of the key figures of British Impressionism, when the RA rejected his application, he went to Paris to study. He returned to London in 1883, a committed Impressionist. His eclectic pointillist Walberswick subjects are some of the first examples of purely English impressionism in British art.

Edward William Stott Maternity, 1903 oil on canvas 63 x 67 cms 243⁄4 x 261⁄8 ins £28,500 – £20,500

Philip Wilson Steer The Black Domino, 1904 oil on canvas 110 x 76 cm 431⁄4 x 297⁄8 ins £28,500 – £14,500

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startacollection 2019 Guy Taplin b.1939 Taplin grew up in London’s East End, and after a disastrous stint in the army, he tried several careers before realising that ultimately, all he really wanted to do was sculpt birds. Working as a keeper in Regent’s Park, he began to whittle decoys of the waterfowl, and from this beginning has gone on to become international known for his sensitive, eclectic ‘birds’. His work is represented exclusively by Messum’s.

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Leonard Campbell Taylor RA ROI RP 1874–1969 Known to critics as ‘The English Vermeer’, Taylor made his name painting society portraits, often set in expansive, opulent interiors, and his sitters included in HM Queen Mary (1928). In 1912 he won a bronze medal at the Paris Salon for The Lady of the Castle, and a gold medal in 1931.

Guy Taplin Heron carved and painted driftwood 137 cms high 53¾ins high £5,850 – £2,250

Guy Taplin Four Sanderlings carved and painted driftwood 24 x 23 x 15 cms 9½ x 9 x 6ins £4,620 – £2,340

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Leonard Campbell Taylor The Lady of the Castle, c.

1910 oil on canvas 109 x 94 cms 427⁄8 x 37 ins £28,500 – £18,500

Margaret Thomas RWA RBA NEAC 1916–2016 Known as a lyrical painter in the firm tradition of the New English Art Club, one of Thomas’ favourite subjects was still life, particularly floral studies where the blooms had passed their peak. As she noted; “fading, dried, left to themselves flowers begin to die from the beginning. When picked they must be left alone to fulfil their destinies, to orientate to the light, to sort out their relative strengths, to stabilise and to mature.

They cannot be arranged. All this I seek to show in my paintings.”

Margaret Thomas Christmas Tulips oil on board 46 x 55 cms 181⁄8 x 213⁄4 ins £4,850 – £2,700 Guy Taplin Plover carved and painted driftwood 35 cms high 13¾ins high £4,620 – £2,340

Daphne Todd OBE PPRP NEAC b.1947 Internationally known as a portraitist, Todd’s work addresses a wide range of genres, including still life, and landscapes inspired by the Kent and Sussex borders where she lives. Her fine, deliberate brushwork on fine birch panels results in superbly controlled surfaces that often belie subtle tensions in her subject matter.

Daphne Todd Celebration Bouquet... oil on 2 raised panels 38 x 61 cms 15 x 24 ins £9,420 – £5,100

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startacollection 2019 Daphne Todd Gone: Mary’s Room oil on birch ply 71 x 57 cms 28 x 22 ins £9,420 – £4,620

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Jean-Marie Toulgouat (1927 - 2006) Born in Giverny in 1927, Jean-Marie Toulgouat was the grandson of the American Post-Impressionist painter Theodore Butler and Suzanne Hoschede, Claude Monet’s stepdaughter by his second wife, Alice. It was he who produced the detailed reconstruction of Monet’s house and garden, which Gerald Van der Kemp (restorer of Versailles and later Monet’s home ) relied upon. Toulgouat never stopped painting, selling in France, London and the United States, where he exhibited at the Keny Gallery in Columbus, Ohio. He was also Artist in Residence at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Jean-Marie Toulgouat Couleurs de l’Automne II, 1973 oil on paper 57 x 30 cms 22½ x 11¾ ins £5,500 – £4,500

Daphne Todd Morning Light oil on birch ply 91 x 89 cms 36 x 35 ins £11,820 – £5,820 Jean-Marie Toulgouat Couleurs de l’Automne I, 1973 oil on paper 44 x 44 cms 17 x 17 ins £5,500 – £4,500 Daphne Todd Eggshells in sunbeam oil on birch ply 22 x 18 cms 8½ x 7 ins £2,940 – £1,980 Jean-Marie Toulgouat Les Grands Parots, 1992 oil on card 53 x 38 cms 21 x 15 ins £6,500 – £3,850 Daphne Todd After Christmas oil on birch ply 33 x 51 cms 12¾ x 20 ins £8,220 – £4,740

Jean-Marie Toulgouat Parterre de Geraniums, 1985 oil on card 38 x 53 cms 15 x 21 ins £6,500 – £3,850

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startacollection 2019 Jean-Marie Toulgouat Groupe de Glycines Wisteria, 2004 oil on canvas 46 x 55 cms 18 x 21 ins £6,500 – £3,850

David Tress b.1955 Reviewing Tress’s 2009 show, David Killen noted, “It’s hard not to feel exhilarated by these sensual, spiritual expressions of landscape in all its raw and transient beauty. Somewhere between representation and physical experience, these paintings burst out of the conventional rectangle. In striving to convey the drama, the texture, the sudden changes in the weather, he adds irregularly overlapping layers until the paintings resemble coloured relief sculptures.”

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Henry Scott Tuke RA NEAC RWS 1858–1929 Tuke trained at the Slade later travelled in France and Florence, which was particularly influential. He became best known for his scenes of boys bathing and sailing, which he exhibited regularly at the RA. Although deemed a member of the Newlyn School, Tuke lived in Falmouth and did not consider himself a Newlyner.

Henry Scott Tuke At Anchor, 1901 watercolour 30 x 45 cms 11¾ x 17¾ ins £9,850 – £6,850

Michael Upton 1938–2002 Upton studied at Birmingham and the RA, where he later taught postgraduate painting. In the 1960s, he exhibited with the London Group and by the early 1970s, was known largely for his conceptual art, although he continued to paint throughout. In the early 1990s, he moved to Mousehole and became fascinated by Cornish light and colour.

Michael Upton Lamorna Woods, 1998 oil on board 12 x 32 cms 4½ x 12½ ins £2,850 – £1,950

David Tress At Shilstone Tor (Dartmoor) mixed media/paper 37 x 46 cms 14½ x 18 ins £4,850 – £4,200

Michael Upton Godrevy oil on board 22 x 29 cms 8½ x 11½ ins £1,850 – £1,250

David Tress Light on Beinn Bhan graphite/paper 32 x 42 cms 125⁄8 x 161⁄2 ins £2,160 – £1,320

David Tress Light – Ripped Sky, Land (Pwll Deri) mixed media/paper 59 x 67 cms 231⁄4 x 263⁄8 ins £8,220 – £4,740

Edward Wilkins Waite RBA 1854–1924 Born in Surrey, Waite was the most renowned figure to emerge from a local artistic dynasty (his father, grandfather and three brothers were all artists of various accomplishment). After schooling, and a brief period as a lumberjack in Canada, he returned to England and exhibited at the Royal Academy as early as 1878. He made his name along Helen Allingham, Myles Birket Foster and Benjamin Williams Leader painting landscapes and genre scenes, usually set in Surrey and poetically titled.

David Tress Green Devon (Haytor, Hound Tor) mixed media/paper 40 x 53 cms 15¾ x 21 ins £5,040 – £3,420

Edward Wilkins Waite Reposing in Decay Serene, 1902 oil on canvas 152 x 123 cms 60 x 481⁄2 ins £28,500 – £7,500

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startacollection 2019 Miles Walters 1773–1855 Miles Walters worked as a shipwright at Bideford before moving to London in 1810. Dated to 1822, this broadside portrait of the brig ‘Betsy Sofia’ off Dover is one of the artist’s rare signed works, possibly when he lived on the south coast. After he moved to Liverpool in 1830, he collaborated with his son, Samuel Walters, and they signed their works ‘Walters & Son’ and several examples are now in the Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts.

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Dominic Welch Continually evolving his distinct sense of abstraction, Welch realises solid, yet fluid forms in Kilkenny limestone, Ancaster Weatherbed, Carrara marble and bronze. Rooted in the natural world, his purity of form is inspired by the organic logic of seeds, pods, shells and fish, suggesting natural harmonies that both calm the senses and spark the imagination.

Miles Walters The Brig ‘Betsy Sofia’ of London in two positions off Dover, 1822 oil on canvas 71 x 124 cms 28 x 487⁄8 ins £28,500 – £19,500

Dominic Welch Embryonic Form IV carrara marble 45 x 51 x 10 cms 17 x 20 x 4 ins £12,240 – £5,400

A diverse range of paintings and sculpture selected from Messum’s Stock and Studio Estate available at reduced prices for five days only.

Works are available on a ‘first-come-first-serve’ basis from 10:00am Mon 29th July until Friday 2nd August 5:00pm.

Call the Studio to arrange viewing or purchase over the phone +(0)1628 486565.

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(please remember to include the artist/s name and artwork title/s you are interested in.)

These prices only apply for purchases made 29th July - 2nd August 2019 Messum’s, The Studio, Lord’s Wood, Marlow, Bucks SL7 2QS Tel: +(0)1628 486565 E: studio@messums.com

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