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Fred BalshawMoonlit River Landscape - Early 20th Century English Antique Oil Paintingc.1920
c.1920
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A beautiful early 20th century oil on board depicting a moonlit river landscape, by Northern English artist Fred Balshaw.
Excellent quality and very atmospheric work. Signed with initials lower right and presented in a painted frame. Sold at Sotheby's, London in 1993.
Artist: Fred Balshaw (English, 1860-1936)
Title: Moonlit River Landscape
Medium: Oil on board
Size: 14.5 x 18.5 inches (37 x 47 cm) including the frame
Provenance: Sothebys, 15 June 1993, Lot 1209
Fred Balshaw was a prolific and versatile genre painter of landscapes, figures and portraits who was born in 1860 in Bolton, Lancashire, the son of Joseph and Sarah, nee Haslam. He appeared on the 1881 census as living in Little Bolton and was described as a general clerk in the county court. In the 1891, 1901 and 1911 censuses he was still in Bolton, but his occupation was given as artist.
In 1884 he was a founder member of the Blackpool Sketching Club and a member of the Fylde Art Society and Sketching Club, becoming its Honorary Secretary in 1926. He was also President of Blackpool Art Society in 1930.
Balshaw was a regular exhibitor between 1888 and 1914, mostly in the North of England, including Manchester, Rochdale and Bolton, where his painting A Fylde Farm was shown in 1908. He also exhibited at the Royal Academy.
The Lytham St Annes Art Society archive file for 1923 shows Balshaw exhibiting 10 artworks in their 7th Annual Exhibition. The 1925 Annual Exhibition records that he exhibited nine works and also details a contribution by Mrs Balshaw entitled 'A Bazaar Costume Portrait'.
Bolton Library and Museum Services stated that:
'From 1897 Bolton Council began to buy a small number of works by contemporary British artists (often from the North West) usually from summer exhibitions of “modern paintings” held at Mere Hall. This included significant Bolton artists such as Fred Balshaw.......'
In 1936 Balshaw was living at Stone House, Blackpool Road, Lea, near Preston. Unfortunately, he died on 6 October that year in Preston Royal Infirmary as a result of injuries received when knocked down by a motor cattle wagon on the Preston to Blackpool Road at Lea.
- Creator:Fred Balshaw (1860 - 1936, British)
- Creation Year:c.1920
- Dimensions:Height: 14.5 in (36.83 cm)Width: 18.5 in (46.99 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Sevenoaks, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1955212805152
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