Pauline Plummer

Pauline Plummer (b.1933) - Framed Contemporary Oil, Beached at Dunwich

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This striking oil painting depicts a coastal landscape with sailboats beached at low tide. The composition skilfully balances the larger central boat under repair with smaller vessel...

A delightful Mid 20th Century piece depicting a beached fishing boat in a small bay. Across the water the artist shows a mountainous landscape in simple forms. The foreground is capt...

ARTIST: Peter Gilman (1928-1984) British TITLE: "Aldeburgh Suffolk" MEDIUM: oil on board SIZE: 26cm x 22cm incl. frame CONDITION: very good NOTES: Peter Gilman (1928-1984) was bo...

Beach Scene, Norfolk Coast, Oil on Board Painting by Peter Greenham 1909-1992 Additional information: Medium: Oil on board 18.5 x 30 cm 7 1/4 x 11 3/4 in Signed with initials Provenance Jonleigh Gallery, Surrey Peter Greenham was a distinguished figurative painter of portraits, landscapes and incidents from domestic life. His work was both sensitive and intelligent and like himself, without showiness or pretension. He was keeper of the Royal Academy Schools and a popular figure who taught many well-known artists including Martin Yeoman, Peter Kuhfeld, Edmund Fairfax-Lucy and Jane Corsellis. Greenham was born in Streatham and educated at Dulwich before studying English at Magdalen College, Oxford, followed by Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art in Kensington from 1936-39 under the supervision of Ernest Jackson. After leaving Byam Shaw he became a schoolmaster at Magdalen College School, Oxford and was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1951 and an R.A. in 1960. In 1964 he succeeded Sir Henry Rushbury as Keeper of the Royal Academy Schools, a position he held with distinction until his retirement in 1985. The Keeper has the responsibility of running the RA Schools and Greenham showed himself to have great sympathy and understanding for his students. In retirement he was able to concentrate entirely on his painting and tended to paint places he knew well such as the Norfolk coast, Northumberland, Oxfordshire and Annecy as well as his wife, the painter Jane Dowling...