George Graham

British impressionist Springtime with blossom in the English countryside

1948

The artist painted several similar views to this with flowering blossom on the banks of the Loire. This is a particularly fine example. Tom Robertson, R.O.I., R.B.A. (1850-1947) Blo...

A timeless snapshot of a Suffolk landscape looking towards Stoke by Nayland, an area where John Constable would have painted a couple of centuries before. Presented in a most attract...

A quintessentially English scene with a magnificent oak tree towering in the foreground of this rolling landscape. Figures can be made out clambering over the haycart at the edge of ...

This beautiful painting is a keynote in the development of what has become known as British Impressionism. The artist was a very good friend and painting companion of Lucien Pissarro...

Oil on board, unsigned Image size: 12 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches (31.75 x 40 cm) Contemporary style handmade frame Exhibitions 1952 Royal Academy of Arts Exhibition, Gallery no. VII, no.429. This forest scene invites the viewer into a multi-sensory event where the cool, damp shadows of the foliage can almost be felt and the rich bouquet of the forest floor recalled. Here, Sherlock has chosen a somewhat unusual angle and composition, dissecting each truck and tree form so that only a part can be seen. Furthermore, as we look into the depths of this space it becomes clear that we are stood gazing down into a valley that is in the distance, behind this wooded area. Indeed, instead of giving us an uninterrupted view of this vista, as perhaps would be expected, this view is deliberately blocked and our focus is directed instead towards the organic forms in the foreground. The Artist  Marjorie Sherlock was born at Fir Tree Cottage, George Lane, Wanstead, Essex, on 3 February 1891, the elder child of the civil engineer, Henry Sherlock, and his wife, Alice (née Platts), who was born in Benares, India. By 1901, the family was living at ‘The Limes’, 121 Mill Road, Cambridge, and Marjorie received an education locally. In 1918, she entered into marriage with her cousin, Major Wilfrid Barrett, though this proved unsuccessful and they later divorced (he remarrying in 1941). She then continued to live at the family home until the Second World War. During the First World War, Marjorie Sherlock studied at Westminster Technical Institute under the Camden Town School painters, Walter Sickert and Harold Gilman. She exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1917, when she showed a powerful view of the interior of Liverpool Street Station (Government Art Collection) (to which the current etching [202] relates). In time, she would exhibit at the International Society, the New English Art Club, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Society of 207 Graphic Art and the Women’s International Art Club (becoming a member of the last two). She also showed work internationally. Developing as a printmaker as well as a painter, Sherlock studied etching under Malcolm Osborne at the Royal College of Art in 1925. She published her etchings in four series, the titles of which indicate her love of travel: ‘English Etchings, ‘Egyptian Etchings’ (both 1925), ‘German Etchings’ (1929) and ‘Indian Etchings’ (1932). During this period, she also visited the united States. More admiring of Continental painters than British ones, she furthered her studies, in 1938, by working in Paris under André L’Hôte and André Dunoyer de Segonzac. During the Second World War, Sherlock moved to East Devon and settled at Oxenways, a Victorian hunting lodge...

Artist/ School: French School, early 20th century Title: British House In Hendon Medium: oil painting on board, unframed and inscribed verso painting: 5.5 x 8.25 inches Provenan...

Blossoming Trees by Regine David (female French artist, 1910-2018) oil painting on board, unframed board: 13 x 16 inches inscribed verso condition: This painting is in excellent cond...

Wilhelm Hempfing Schönau 1886 – 1948 Karlsruhe Cherry Tree in Bloom, Bergstraße Oil on canvas Signed lower left, titled on the stretcher Dimensions: 40 x 50 cm Frame: 48.5 x 58.5 c...