Harold Storey

Vintage 1940's Scottish Oil Painting Old Cottage amongst Forest Greenery

1940

French Countryside Landscape by Edmond Quinton (French 1892-1969) *see notes below oil painting on board/ panel, unframed size: 7.75 x 9.5 inches condition: overall good and sound, s...

French Landscape by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back signed oil painting on board, unframed measures: 9.5 high by 7 inches wide conditio...

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...

As Frederick Percy Eary, he was born at Sudbury, Suffolk on 16 July 1888, son of Albert Henry Eary (11 November 1862-1941), mat weaver, and his wife Hannah (6 July 1860-1939), who married at Sudbury in 1883 and in 1939 were living at 5 Acton Square, Sudbury. Known as Paul Earee, an artist who was a professionally trained as an ecclesiastical architect, art teacher and illustrator, using his spare time in painting, etchings and drawing with strong regional content. As an architect he designed many buildings and interiors in Sudbury including the pulpit of St Gregory...