Maud Marion Wear (1873-1955)

Portrait of a Girl Holding Wool

This beautiful British Edwardian portrait oil painting is by noted and much exhibited female artist Maud Marion Wear. Wear trained at the Royal Academy Schools in London for five years and then went on to combine teaching art and exhibiting for over forty years including 45 works at the Royal Academy. Her painting were mainly portraits and figure studies. This lovey painting, painted circa 1905 is a three quarter length portrait of a young woman in front of a leaded window. She is wearing a dark dress with lace collar and lace cap. In her hands she holds a ball of tangerine wool. These colours are beautifully echoed by the autumnal trees behind her through the window. She is gazing down to her right. This painting is absolutely exquisite in its colouring with the vivid orange and greens behind her and her rosy cheeks and red lips. The sympathetic soft focus detail in her face is also superb. This is a fantastic example of Wear's work as a female artist and is just a pleasure to behold.  

Indistinctly signed lower right. 

Signed 'Maud M Wear' on stretcher verso.
 
Provenance. Essex estate. 

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James Ward (1769-1859)

Village Scene with Figures and Animals

This stunning British Old Master exhibited pastoral oil on panel is by noted artist James Ward. Painted circa 1815 with superb provenance, it was exhibited posthumously at the Royal Academy London in 1885 whilst owned by Studley Castle. The painting is of a village setting with a number of villagers going about their activities outside their cottages including doing the laundry, shoeing a horse and passing the tine of day. He was a noted animal painter and there are numerous passages throughout the painting of animals. A sow and her piglets are in the foreground just before a bridge over a stream and the cottages follow the track beyond. There is a horse by the cottage. Behind the village are majestic hills and a Sublime sky with clouds rolling in. The painting is bathed in sunlight with fantastic fluid brushwork on the track and especially in the clouds. There is also great attention to detail such as the eves of the house on the near right, the stonework on the left and the leaves of the trees. This is a superb British Old Master oil painting with excellent provenance and is a fantastic example of Ward's work. 

Signed J WARD (in ligature, lower left). 

Provenance Charles Mansel Lewis (1845-1931) And by family descent
                    Property from Stradey Castle, Wales 

Literature: C. Reginald Grundy, James Ward, R.A. His Life and Works (London, 1909), p.54, no. 858 

Exhibited: London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, 1885, no.33 

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Annie Louisa Swynnerton (1844-1933)

Victorian Woodland Maiden

This superb 19th century portrait oil painting is by noted Manchester artist Annie Louisa Swynnerton. Her works have previously been bought by artists such as George Clausen and John Singer Sargent. Swynnerton was the first woman to be elected an Associate of the Royal Academy and later founded the Manchester Society of Women Painters with Isobel Dacre. The composition for this painting is of a young dark haired, ruby cheeked woman dressed in red in the foreground, resting her elbows on a log, her chin in her hands. She is smiling and gazing up and to the right. Beyond her is a wooded landscape and vibrant blue river stretching out to the sea.  An autumnal coloured blackberry briar is in front of her arms and blackberries are on the log, suggesting she is foraging for fruit and a child of the woods and nature. The work has Swynnerton's mystical, ethereal touch with superb brushwork and a vibrant palette.  We have several paintings by Swynnerton but this is one of our favourites and is a classic example of her outstanding talent as a Victorian born female artist.

Signed lower right and dated 1887.

Provenance. Italian estate.

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Edwin Noble (1876-1961)

Young Man with Two Dogs in a Landscape

This superb British Edwardian figurative landscape oil painting is by noted animal artist Edwin Noble. Painted in 1904 it is a large and detailed painting of a young man, kneeling in a grassy thicket with his two dogs, a lurcher and terrier. He is restraining the dogs whilst his ferret goes down a rabbit hole in the hedgerow. Two dead rabbits are already lying on the grass beside them. Beyond is a county landscape of fields and trees. The young man in his stripped shirt and waistcoat and the two white dogs really stand out in the mass of greenery around them as do the white wild flowers at their feet. The detail and brushwork are superb.  This is an excellent example of Edwin Noble's work as an animal painter in the Edwardian period and also depicts country pursuits. 

Signed and dated Edwin Noble 04 lower right.

Provenance. From the collection of Derek Parker and Peter Wynne Morris, Interior designers, antique dealers and collectors over sixty years.

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Bertram Priestman (1868-1951)

Cows in a Landscape - River Wharfe Yorkshire

This lovely British Edwardian Impressionist landscape oil painting is by noted artist Bertram Priestman. Painted in 1901 the location is the River Wharfe a river in Yorkshire, England originating within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. For much of its middle course it is the county boundary between West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire. Its valley is known as Wharfedale. Priestman has depicted a number of different coloured cows in the foreground on the edge of the river. Beyond is the climbing riverbank and trees on the other side of the water beneath a blustery sky. The impressionistic brushwork, heavy impasto and vibrant colours are just superb. This is a fantastic example of Priestman's work and a lovely British Edwardian Impressionistic oil painting.

Signed and dated 1901 lower right.

Provenance. Exhibited 1902 Tableau achete a l'Exposition Trienale des Beaux Arts. No 960.
                     Dolman and Son London
                     Yorkshire estate.

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