Godwin Bennett

Oil painting by Godwin Bennett “A Street in Salcombe, Devon”

1920

Leslie Hall Woollatt, 1905 - 1974. A painter and sculptor who studied at the Nottingham School of Artists. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Institute and Nottingham Society o...

Leslie Hall Woollatt, 1905 - 1974. A painter and sculptor who studied at the Nottingham School of Artists. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Institute and Nottingham Society o...

Oil Painting by E Godby "A Village HIgh Street" 1840 - 1860 A well painted village scene from the early victorian era. Oil on canvas. Signed and Dated 1846. Dimensions unframed 24 x...

WILLIAM HENRY PIKE, 1846 - 1908 London painter of South-Welsh landscapes, he exhibited at the Royal Academy, Institute, Society and Hibernian Academy in Dublin. Both original on boa...

A landscape in the harbour village of Clovelly in Devon. Presented in a distressed gilt-effect wooden frame with a linen inner window. Signed and dated to the lower-right corner. The...

A spectacular oil by Donald Gray Midgely, depicting an idyllic street in the Coastal village of Robin Hood’s Bay. Signed by the artist to the lower right and dated 1975. Presented in...

Signed lower left: W.E. Schofield

Gyrth Russell. Canadian ( b.1892 - d.1970 ). Before The Hot Day Brightens To Blue (Mevagissey Harbor, Cornwall). Oil On Canvas. Signed Lower Right. Image size 22.4 inches x 34.8 inches ( 57cm x 88.5cm ). Frame size 28.5 inches x 40.6 inches ( 72.5cm x 103cm ). Available for sale; this original oil painting is by Gyrth Russell and dates from post WWII. The painting is presented and supplied in a 1960s frame (which is shown in these photographs). The painted surfaces have benefitted from cleaning and conservation, which took place on our instruction, supervision and approval. This vintage painting is now in very good condition, commensurate with its age. It wants for nothing and is supplied ready to hang and display. The painting is signed lower right. Previously with the Howard Roberts Gallery, Cardiff. Considered one of the best coastal painters of the 20th century, Gyrth Russell was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in April 1892. He was the youngest of 8 children. His father was a Canadian MP and a Supreme High Court Judge for Nova Scotia. At the age of fourteen, Russell began his artistic career at Halifax School of Art, and quickly graduated to the School of Art at Boston, Massachusetts. His first job was as a draughtsman in the Public Works Department of Canada, in Halifax. It was during this period he saw and sketched the cable ship Mackay Bennett returning to her Halifax Station, her decks piled high with coffins containing bodies found after the Titanic Disaster. In 1911 Russell left Canada to study at the Academie Julian and Academie Calorossi in Paris. In 1914 at the outbreak of War, he left France for London where he was commissioned, under the command of Lord Beaverbrook, as an official War Artist for the Canadian Sector, and spent most of 1918 in Northern France painting the landscapes and coasts travelled by the Canadian military during the conflict. During the course of the First World War he worked with amongst others, Augustus John, William Orpen & Frank Brangwyn, who greatly influenced him. Many of his earliest works are of landscapes and coasts travelled by the Canadian military in the conflict. During the War Russell also made etchings and poster prints for sale to help popularize and support the war effort abroad. He took part in the Canadian War Memorial Exhibition in London in 1919. Between the Wars, Russell earned his living as an artist in film studios, designing Railway Posters, Lecturing and Writing. He also illustrated books on the geography of Nova Scotia and Western Britain. Russell enjoyed considerable success between the Wars, exhibiting extensively at the major galleries, and was elected to membership of the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Institute of Painters and Watercolorists, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Royal Society of Marine Artists as well as being an active member of the Langham...