Jeremy Andrews

Evening Light, Contemporary Welsh Artist, Oil Landscape

Oil on canvas, monogrammed bottom right, inscription and artist label on stretcher Image size: 12 x 24 inches (30.5 x 61 cm) Original frame Provenance Collection of Mrs Fairchild, L...

Robert Deborne French 1870 - Oil on canvas, signed bottom right Image size: 20 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches (53 x 62 cm) Original gilt frame Provenance Artist’s Estate Robert Deborne Ro...

Sir Herbert James Gunn, RA, PRP 1893 - 1964 Paris Oil on canvas, signed lower right Image size: 36 x 28 inches (91.5 x 71 cm) Hand made frame An early work by Gunn probably from his first studying days in Paris around 1919. James Gunn was born in Glasgow and briefly studied art at Glasgow and Edinburgh before moving to the Académie Julian in Paris in 1911. After serving with the 10th Scottish...

William Henry James Boot 1848 - 1918 Kirkstall Abbey Oil on canvas, monogrammed lower right and dated 1876 Image size: 24 x 36 inches (61 x 91.5 cm) Exhibited Royal Academy, 1878 no. 692 Much like his contemporary, John Atkinson Grimshaw, Boot appears to have been influenced by the Pether family who were renowned painters of nocturnes. He was a book illustrator as well as a renowned oil and watercolour artist, producing engravings for the London Illustrated News and Art Journal. He wrote 'Trees and How to Paint Them' in 1883. Boot was born in Manchester. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1874 to 1884, showing mainly English and Continental landscapes. He is known to have travelled extensively in Germany, France and North Africa. Boot was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists and of the Arts Club, who listed him as a "painter and writer on Gothic architecture". Boot also painted domestic genre and interior scenes but tended to concentrate on landscapes. Boot lived and married in London. He is buried with his wife in Hampstead. The subject of this painting, Kirkstall Abbey in Yorkshire, was a place Boot often visited. Three figures to the right gaze admiringly at the view, with the moonlight reflected on the path they stand on. THIS PAINTING IS IN THE 'MOONLIGHT IN PAINTINGS AND WATERCOLOURS' EXHIBITION CURRENTLY SHOWING AT DARNLEY FINE ART...