Frank Duffield

British Impressionist Painting Fishermen With Their Nets Out

Mid 20th Century

Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982) original watercolour painting on board, unframed size: 15. x 21.5 inches condition: overall very good, minor wear to the edges as is normal for an...

Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982) signed original gouache painting on board, unframed size: 14 x 17 inches condition: overall very good, minor wear to the edges as is normal for an unframed work, minor staining from age/ light to the surface provenance: from a large private collection of this artists work in the UK. The artist: Born in Warwick in 1901, Duffield came to Bristol at the age of 23 as an artist at the studio of Mardon Son and Hall. He worked as an illustrator producing designs for cigarette cards, remaining with the company for 37 years until his retirement. He was elected an Artist Member of the Bristol Savages...

Expressive watercolor figurative of fisherman pulling in the nets by Walter P. Taylor (American, 20th Century). Signed "W.P. Taylor U.S.N.R.'45 (for United States Naval Reserve)" low...

This artwork "Pecheurs en Mer (Fishermen at Sea) c.1920 is an oil painting on canvas by noted French artist Rene Lienard De Saint Delis, 1877-1958. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The canvas size is 23,5 x 28.5 inches, framed size is 33.5 x 38.85 inches. Framed in a new wooden gold frame with fabric liner. It is in good condition, Has minor stable non open cracks in the paint due to age, visible under raking light, see pictures 7-8-9 About the artist: Born in 1876 in Saint-Omer, Eugène René is the second of four children of Antoine Albert Liénard of Saint-Delis (1840-1881), officer of the 5 th regiment of dragons and his wife Antoinette Emma Houet (1847 -1920). The birth of our artist is followed by that of his brother Henri (1878-1949), also a painter . The death of the illnesses of Captain Liénard de Saint-Delis led Emma to leave the Pas-de-Calais in 1881 to move to Le Havre with her four children. After high school François-I of Le Havre where another student, Émile Othon Friesz , is his best friend, René de Saint-Delis attended successively the Municipal School of Fine Arts of Le Havre where, with his classmates, besides his brother Henri and Othon Friesz, others who will also become his friends ( Georges Braque , Raoul Dufy , Raimond Lecourt ), he follows the courses of Charles Lhuillier (a "great admirer of Boudin " at the same time as "he places the drawing first and foremost, forbidding his pupils to use color , and the Académie Julian in Paris, where from 1900 to 1904 he was a pupil of William Bouguereau . On January 29, 1906, Le Havre created the Circle of Modern Art, which consisted of artists (among them, René and Henri de Saint-Delis, their aforementioned friends, but also Gaston Prunier...