Eugène Etienne Sordet

Lake Annecy, the Tournette

1876

Work on cardboard Grey wooden frame 29 x 35 x 3 cm

Work on wood Beige wooden frame With frame 54 x 74 x 2.5 cm Green mountains, village and Lake Annecy This work illustrates a vibrant landscape, where green mountains rise majesticall...

Molded frame in plaster and gilded wood Oil dimensions : 38x59 cm With Frame :58 x 78.5 x 5.5 cm This oil on canvas by Eugène Castan depicts a mountain landscape at Arolla, in the V...

Work on canvas

A delicate gouache landscape showing a view of a Renaissance villa overlooking calm blue waters of Lake Como, Italy. Signed lower right, 'F. Catano', (Italian, 19th century); inscri...

Mid Century Lake Lucerne, Switzerland Landscape Gorgeous landscape of Lake Lucerne, Switzerland by Gustave Grossenbacher (Swiss, 20th century). The viewer stands at the edge of an e...

Jean-Baptiste COENE Vilvoorde, 1805 - Brussels, circa 1880 Lively landscape by a mountain lake Oil on canvas 38 x 55 cm (53 x 70 cm with frame) Signed and dated lower left "J. Coene ...

Lake Annecy, Oil on Board Painting by Peter Greenham 1909-1992 Additional information: Medium: Oil on board 18 x 27 cm 7 1/8 x 10 5/8 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...