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Laurence Henry IrvingRiver Landscape - British 1970's Post Impressionist art oil painting1972
1972
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This lovely British 1970's Post Impressionist landscape oil painting is by noted artist Laurence Henry Irving. Painted in 1972 it is signed with his monogram lower right. The view is from a high vantage point, looking down on a meandering river as it reaches a much larger expanse of water, such as a lake with mountains on the far side. Sheep are in a field in the foreground and birds wheel over head. The day and sky are lightening and clearing from the right and Irving has perfectly captured the play of light making this a lovely example of his work.
Signed with monogram and dated 72 lower right.
Provenance. Alfred Stiles and Sons label verso.
Condition. Oil on canvas. Image size 20 inches by 16 inches. In good condition.
Frame. Housed in a complementary frame, 27 inches by 23 inches.
Laurence Henry Irving OBE, RDI (11 April 1897 – 23 October 1988) was an artist, book illustrator and Hollywood set designer and art director. Irving was the son of actors H. B. Irving and Dorothea Baird, and the biographer of his grandfather, the Victorian era actor, Henry Irving. His sister was the actress and founder of the Keep Britain Tidy Campaign, Elizabeth Irving. He lived and died in Wittersham, Kent in 1988, within walking distance of the house, Smallhythe Place, where Dame Ellen Terry lived, who was his grandfather's leading lady at the Lyceum Theatre in London's West End. He briefly and unhappily attended Wellington College and later trained as a painter at the Byam Shaw School of Art and the Royal Academy School, studying under Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon. On completion of his art training, Irving specialised in landscape and marine painting before commencing on his career as a designer for the theatre. He was a pilot in the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) during World War I, ending the War with the rank of Captain. In 1919 be became engaged to Rosalind Woolner, the granddaughter of the Pre-Raphaelite sculptor Thomas Woolner. They married in 1921. Laurence Irving was also a book illustrator, producing artwork for Richard Hakluyt's Voyages & Discoveries of the English (1926) and John Masefield’s Philip the King (1927). In 1928 Irving went to Hollywood with Douglas Fairbanks to be his Art Director on The Iron Mask (1929), the last of his full-scale silent films and, later, in collaboration with William Cameron Menzies, to design the production of the film version of The Taming of the Shrew (1929). He was the Art Director for the films 77 Park Lane (1931) and Colonel Blood (1934). In his memoirs, Irving vividly recounts working in Hollywood for such figures as Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin. On his return to the United Kingdom in the 1930s, he worked on films such as Moonlight Sonata (1937) and the Gabriel Pascal films of Shaw's Pygmalion (1938). In October 1939 at the start of World War II he served in the Intelligence Department at the Air Ministry.
- Creator:Laurence Henry Irving (1897 - 1988)
- Creation Year:1972
- Dimensions:Height: 23 in (58.42 cm)Width: 27 in (68.58 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Gallery Location:London, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU853113397852
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