Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 3

Anna Zinkeisen
The Village Fete, Signed Watercolour 20th Century British Female Artist

About the Item

Watercolour, ink and graphite on paper, signed bottom left Image size: 9 x 5 1/2 inches (23 x 14 cm) Mounted This is a bright and vibrant work that depicts a populated village fête - an event that many considered to be an archetypal feature of rural British life. Fairs have been a feature of life in Britain since medieval times, and were originally a marketplace for the buying and selling of stock, and the hiring of men. Many counties still hold these fairs, which have gradually evolved into agricultural shows. The village fête, however, is an altogether gentler and more modern event, and has its roots in charity rather than commerce. The early fêtes possibly grew out of “sales of work,” where the ladies of the parish made items to be sold for charitable causes, such as war veterans or orphans. The heyday of the fête was probably the 1950s and fêtes slowly declined in the late 1970s and 1980s, perhaps reflecting the changes in the community as more and more locals left the village, and newcomers had less interest in traditional village life. Anna Zinkeisen Anna Zinkeisen enjoyed noticeable publicity from the painting at the time. Anna Zinkeisen was born at Kilcreggan, Dumbartonshire on 29 August 1901, the daughter of Victor Zinkeisen, a timber merchant, and his wife Clare. In 1901 the family moved to Middlesex. Anna and her sister Doris attended Harrow School of Art before they both won scholarships to the Royal Academy Schools, where Anna studied sculpture from 1916-1921, winning several medals. She received a commission for some plaques from the Wedgwood company and although her designs were awarded a silver medal at the Exposition des Art Decoratifs in Paris in 1925, she decided to specialise in portrait painting and mural work. In 1935, Anna and her sister Doris Zinkeisen were commissioned by John Brown & Co. (Shipbuilders of Clydebank) to paint the murals in the Verandah Grill of the famous ocean liner the RMS Queen Mary. Their work can still be seen on the ship, now permanently moored in Long Beach, California. They also painted murals for the Queen Elizabeth. In 1941, during World War II, the Zinkeisen sisters were both employed as war artists for the North West Europe Commission of the Joint War Organisation of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St John at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington and made pathological drawings of war injuries for the Royal College of Surgeons. Artist of portrait, figure, landscape and murals and book illustrator she exhibited widely including at the Royal Academy, Royal Society of British Artists, Royal Hiberian Academy, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Society of Women Artists, Royal Scottish Academy, Redfern Gallery and in the provinces and abroad. Her painting of plastic surgeon Sir Archibald Hector McIndoe is exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery (London), as is her self-portrait. She married at Marylebone church in London in 1928, a Mr Guy Robert Nelson Heseltine (1897-1967) and they lived at Looms Cottage, Burgh, Woodbridge in Suffolk. Her works can be found in museums across the country. Zinkeisen died in Kensington, London on 23 September 1976.
  • Creator:
    Anna Zinkeisen (1901 - 1976)
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 5.5 in (13.97 cm)Width: 7 in (17.78 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Period:
  • Framing:
    Framing Options Available
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    London, GB
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU52413027242
More From This SellerView All
  • Bombed London, 20th Century British School Watercolour, War Theme
    Located in London, GB
    BRITISH SCHOOL 20th Century BOMBED LONDON Watercolour, unsigned Image size: 9 ½ x 14 inches
    Category

    20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

    Materials

    Watercolor

  • Stirling Castle, 19th Century British School Signed Watercolour
    Located in London, GB
    BRITISH SCHOOL 19th Century STIRLING CASTLE Watercolour, signed lower right Image size: 12 x 10 inches (30 x 25.5 cm)
    Category

    19th Century Victorian Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

    Materials

    Watercolor

  • Richmond Bridge, Victorian Oil Painting, London Scene
    By Horace Mann Livens
    Located in London, GB
    HORACE MANN LIVENS 1862 - 1936 RICHMOND BRIDGE II Watercolour, signed lower right Image size: 12 x 10 inches Framed Livens was born in Croydon in 1862...
    Category

    20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

    Materials

    Watercolor

  • The Lily Pond, English School 19th Century Watercolour Signed
    By Lillian Stannard
    Located in London, GB
    Lillian Stannard 1877 - 1944 The Lily Pond Watercolour, signed lower left Image size: 9 ½ x 13 ½ inches Contemporary gilt frame Lillian Stannard was a celebrated painter of En...
    Category

    19th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

    Materials

    Watercolor

  • SUNSET, NEW FOREST, British School 20th Century Signed Watercolour
    By Marjory Whittington
    Located in London, GB
    MARJORY WHITTINGTON 1883 - 1952 Sunset, New Forest Watercolour, Signed with monogram & dated 1912 lower right Image size: 9 ¾ x 7 inches Original mount & oak frame £900 Marjory Whittington was an oil and watercolour painter and etcher. Born in London she exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Scottish Academy, Royal Institute of Artists, the Fine Art Society, Grosvenor Gallery, Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, Goupil Gallery, Walker Art Gallery, Society of Women Artists and the Paris Salon. Marjory Whittington was also a member of the Royal Society of British Artists. The watercolour ‘Sunset...
    Category

    20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

    Materials

    Watercolor

  • Somerset by Maxwell Fraser (original painting for book cover), British Art-Deco
    By Leonard Cusden
    Located in London, GB
    Leonard Cusden British Flourished: 1920 - 1950 Somerset Gouache, signed lower right Image size: 17 ¾ x 27 inches Contemporary oak gilt frame This is the original painting used for the cover of the first edition for the novel "Someret" by Maxwell Fraser, published by The Great Western Railway...
    Category

    20th Century Art Deco Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

    Materials

    Gouache

You May Also Like
  • Pheasant Approaching Barn In Winter
    Located in Bristol, CT
    Watercolour depicting a pheasant in flight passing a barn in winter signed, Lambert (LR) Art Sz: 9 1/2"H x 14 1/2"W Frame Sz: 16 1/4"H X 21 1/2W w/ lacquer birdseye maple frame
    Category

    20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

    Materials

    Watercolor

  • Claude Muncaster Landscape Near Shrewsbury watercolour English countryside
    By Claude Muncaster
    Located in London, GB
    We acquired a series of paintings from Claude Muncaster's studio. To find more scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller." Claude Muncaster (1903-1974) Landscape Near Shrewsbury Watercolour 26x36cm Signed lower left Claude Grahame Muncaster, RWS, ROI, RBA, SMA was the son of Oliver Hall RA. At the age of fifteen his career as a landscape painter began, and he soon took to the seas, spending the 1920s and 30s travelling the world with his sketchbook in a series of vessels. With the outbreak of war and he joined the RNVR training as a navigator. Having left school at fifteen his mathematics was very weak and it was a relief for all when his artistic talents meant he was recruited as a camofleur. A master of capturing seascapes he was therefore able to hide huge ships ‘in plain sight’ with clever disguises. After the war he painted for the Royal Family and was a frequent guest at Sandringham. Claude Muncaster was a watercolourist known for his landscapes and maritime scenes. He was born Grahame Hall, the son of the Royal Academician Oliver Hall who taught his son to paint from an early age; Grahame first exhibited his work aged 15 and a few years later was showing at the RA. However, he adopted the name Claude Muncaster in 1922 to dissociate his career from that of his father. Muncaster’s primary choice of subject matter came from a genuine love of the sea. He made several long-distance sea voyages, including one around the Horn...
    Category

    Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

    Materials

    Watercolor

  • Disegno figurativo fiammingo ad acquerello del XVIII secolo, scena di genere
    Located in Florence, IT
    Sullo sfondo di un paesaggio dai tratti centro-settentrionali europei-in cui si riconoscono una cappella e il profilo di una città dagli alti pinnacoli-si svolge una scena di svago, ...
    Category

    18th Century Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

    Materials

    Paper, Ink, Watercolor

  • Monhegan House, Modernist watercolor, Maine, (Fisherman’s Shack)
    By Albert W. Wein
    Located in Greenwich, CT
    Albert Wein visited Monhegan, Maine and created a modernist series of watercolors depicting the landscape, coast and life on the Island. Richly colored, t...
    Category

    20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

    Materials

    Watercolor

  • Shadows - Piazza San Marcos Venice Watercolor by Thomas Schaller
    Located in Morgan Hill, CA
    "Shadows - San Marcos" is a large watercolor by award-winning L.A. artist and architect Thomas W. Schaller. The watercolor painting depicts the bustling Piazza San Marco with the Basilica front and center. The tower is casting a shadow on the Basilica which further enhances its exquisite facade. The crowd's silhouettes can be seen in the puddles at their feet. For more works by Thomas Schaller...
    Category

    2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

    Materials

    Watercolor

  • One Green Wave
    By Richard Davies
    Located in Long Island City, NY
    Artist: Richard Davies Title: One Green Wave Year: 1991 Medium: Watercolor, graphite, colored pencil, collage, signed in pencil Size: 60 x 40 in. (152.4 x 1...
    Category

    1990s Conceptual Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

    Materials

    Watercolor, Color Pencil, Graphite

Recently Viewed

View All