Gordon Scott

Houses in Crescent Grove, Clapham, Oil on Canvas Painting by Gordon Scott, 1967

1967

Adrian Daintrey was born in Balham, London on 23 June 1902, the youngest of three children of Ernest Daintrey, a solicitor and his wife Lucy Mary (née Blagdon). He was educated at Ch...

Landscape, House in the Woods, Oil on Canvas Painting by Peter Greenham 1909-1992 Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas-board 20 x 26 cm 7 7/8 x 10 1/4 in Signed with initials lower right; also signed verso Provenance Estate of the Artist 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...

Gordon Scott 1914 - 2016 Crescent Grove, Clapham Oil on canvas Image size: 18 x 24 inches Contemporary style frame GORDON SCOTT EXHIBITION AT DARNLEY F...

* No US duty or taxes to pay on this item * A beautiful mid 20th century Modern British oil on canvas depicting a red house on Hampstead Haeath, by Arnold Auerbach. The work is sig...