William Johnstone

(1897-1981) SCOTTISH LARGE 1920's Portrait of A Lady ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING

1925

ARTIST: Janet Patterson (1941-) Scottish TITLE: “Portrait OF A Seated Lady” SIGNED: lower right MEDIUM: oil on board SIZE: 30cm x 25cm inc frame CONDITION: excellent DETAIL: Painter and teacher, born in Edinburgh. She trained at Slade School of Fine Art. A French Government Scholarship enabled her to extend her studies, and a Churchill Fellowship in 1987 provided six months travelling and painting in Australia. Lectured at Liverpool and Wallasey Colleges of Art and then at Edinburgh College of Art, later moving to London. She said that her painting was “about the passage of life, how I react to situations and atmosphere”. Group exhibitions included Sheffield Open, Liverpool Academy, LG, National Trust and Fine Art Society, Edinburgh. Solo shows included Petter Potter, Haddington; Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh; and Camden Arts Centre, 1982. Was included in Scottish Art in the 20th Century at RWA, 1991. Won second prize, Hunting Art...

ARTIST: Beatrice Huntington (1889-1988) Scottish TITLE: "Portrait Of A Red Haired Lady" SIGNED: lower left and with provenance from The Scottish Gallery Edinburgh and James Bourlet exhibition label also MEDIUM: oil on canvas SIZE: 68cm x 60cm inc frame CONDITION: very good DETAIL: The Scottish artist Beatrice M. L. Huntington (1889–1988) enjoyed a long and varied career as a painter and is best known for her insightful portraits, characterised by a strong sense of design and an intuitive use of colour. Her approach to painting was ever-evolving: throughout her long and fascinating life, which spanned a century and bore witness to the advent of the modern era, she remained indefatigably committed to her development as an artist and to 'containing and realising the big-ness of it all', as she herself described it in a letter to a friend in 1977, when at the age of 88 she was still refining her approach to form and colour. The daughter of an eminent St Andrews doctor, Beatrice grew up in affluent surroundings – an imposing townhouse on St Andrews South Street both her father's surgery and the family home. A precocious talent for both music and art led her, perhaps unusually for a girl at that time, to pursue her studies abroad. In 1906, the year she turned 17, she went to Paris to study drawing and painting and in 1911, after an evidently successful formative period in Paris, she continued her studies in Munich, attending a private art school where she apparently flourished. By the 1920s, Beatrice's own identity and path as an artist were clearly defined. Her marriage to the painter William Macdonald in 1925 created a unique artistic partnership and cemented her place within the Scottish art scene of the 1920s and 1930s, particularly in Edinburgh where Macdonald was already well established and a close friend of Scottish Colourists F. C. B. Cadell and Samuel Peploe. This is illustrated by surviving correspondence and in particular by a characterful portrait of a debonair William Macdonald by Cadell, dating from the mid-1920s. Macdonald's particular affinity for the arid landscapes of southern Spain had earned him the nickname William 'Spanish' Macdonald. Beatrice shared his love of travel and together they explored the Continent, returning frequently to the French Riviera and to southern Spain, taking as their base, for a time at least, the picturesque Mediterranean fishing village of Cassis in the South of France, a favoured haunt of the Colourists. The couple moved in artistic milieux both at home and abroad, also spending time in Kirkcudbright in Galloway. Their time painting together in Spain culminated with a joint exhibition in 1928 at Messrs Watt and Sons, Dundee, entitled 'Pictures of Spain...

ARTIST: Hugo Von Ritter Bouvard (1879-1959) Austrian TITLE: “Portrait Of A Lady In A Silk Dress” SIGNED: upper left and dated 1936 MEDIUM: oil on canvas SIZE: 70cm x 60cm unframe...

ARTIST: Paul Richards (1949-) British TITLE: "Female Portrait" SIGNED: unsigned - from the artists French studio and painted on a French origin canvas ...

ARTIST: Robin Hambro (1934-2022) American TITLE: "Expressionist Portrait" SIGNED: lower right MEDIUM: oil on canvas SIZE: 120cm x 95cm inc frame CONDITION: excellent DETAIL: Born ...

ARTIST: Early / Mid 20th Century English School TITLE: "Portrait Of A Lady" SIGNED: appears unsigned MEDIUM: oil on canvas SIZE: 77cm x 67cm inc frame CONDITION: very good - ne...

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