William Dring RA (1904-1990)

Artist Name William Dring RA (1904-1990)
Title Summer Frolic
Description This charming Slade School Post Impressionist Art Deco oil painting is by noted British prolific Royal Academy exhibitor and Royal Academician William Dring. It is possible that our painting was exhibited in 1954, No. 207 and entitled Summer rather than Summer Frolic. The painting is a garden scene of 4 girls enjoying the sun and one is dancing in the nude.
Signed and dated William Dring 1931 lower right.
Provenance Bonhams, Modern Pictures and Illustrations, 11 November 2008, Lot 99.
Medium Oil on Canvas
Size 20 x 24 inches
Frame Housed in a complementary frame, 30 inches by 26 inches and in good condition.
Condition Good condition
Biography William Dring RA (1904-1990) - a painter, draughtsman and teacher, he was born Dennis William Dring, but was known colloquially as John. He was the brother of the artist James Dring, he married the painter Grace Elizabeth Rothwell, and their daughter Melissa was also an artist. Dring studied under Henry Tonks at the Slade School of Fine Art, 1922-25, and emerged as a fine draughtsman, a sympathetic portrait painter (fond of using his family as subjects), and a deft watercolourist. He won several prizes and scholarships at the Slade. He then taught until 1940 at Southampton School of Art, and became an official war artist. The Imperial War Museum owns 64 of his portraits in pastel (mainly of naval personnel who received battle awards) and five of his elaborately constructed oil paintings.

He was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1944 when he showed a strong portrait of his daughter Melissa, and after the war he became a noted exhibitor at the Royal Academy, being elected RA in 1955. He produced a string of boardroom and official portraits, including the presentation of the Freedom of the City of London to the then HRH Princess Elizabeth in 1947. In 1981 he was commissioned to record the five most influential benchers of Lincoln’s Inn: Mrs Thatcher; Lord Denning; Mr Megarry; Lord Hailsham; and Lord Widgery.
 
Price £5250
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