Geoffrey Chatten

Original Oil on Board, Geoffrey Chatten R.B.A. "Off Gorleston"

1975

Geoffrey Chatten, R.B.A. Born Gorleston 1938 Popular impressionist painter, member of the Royal Society of Artists and Great Yarmouth Society of Artists. Signed, title inscribed ver...

Geoffrey Chatten, R.B.A. Born Gorleston 1938 Popular impressionist painter, member of the Royal Society of Artists and Great Yarmouth Society of Artists. Signed and dated (19) ,77 O...

Geoffrey Chatten, R.B.A. Born Gorleston 1938 Popular impressionist painter, member of the Royal Society of Artists and Great Yarmouth Society of Artists. Signed, title inscribed ver...

Alfred Henry Vickers 1836 - 1919. Popular painter of rustic and continental landscapes, often on a small scale, grandson of Alfred Vickers senior. Original frame. Title inscribed v...

Off Portsmouth Harbour 19th century oil , john callow A fine 19th century oil on canvas painting "off Portsmouth harbour " signed and indistinctly dated 1844, the size of the paint...

A very fine painting by the renowned seascape painter Arthur Joseph Meadows,Off Calais; fishing fleet returning at low tide. Housed in an antique style gilt frame the size overall is...

Beautiful light in this view of Morston the North Norfolk coast James Longueville (born 1943) Setting sail, Morston Signed, inscribed with title to the reverse Oil on board 16 x 24 ...

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...