John Steane (b.1931)

University Parks Oxford Red Roof Building Summer Trees and Open Field 2015

2015

Title: Cuttleslowe Oxford Landscape with Trees Meadow and Summer Sky by John Steane (b.1931) Size: 10 inches (height) x 13.75 inches (width) watercolor painting on paper, unframed co...

Title: University Parks Oxford Landscape with Pine Tree and Summer Shadows by John Steane (b.1931) Size: 9 inches (height) x 12.25 inches (width) watercolor painting on paper, unfram...

Title: Water Eaton Manor House Oxfordshire Historic Buildings and Open Field View by John Steane (b.1931) Size: 7 inches (height) x 10 inches (width) watercolor painting on paper, un...

Title: Almshouses and Stone Gateway Chipping Norton Oxfordshire Architectural Scene by John Steane (b.1931) Size: 19.75 inches (height) x 23.25 inches (width), including mounting wat...

Bedford Park by LUDOVIC-RODO PISSARRO (1878-1952) Watercolour on paper 24.5 x 38 cm (9 ⅝ x 15 inches) Signed, inscribed and dated lower left, Bedford Park 1928 Ludovic Rodo Painted ...

Cottages at Bibury, Oil on Canvas-Board Painting by Peter Greenham Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas-board 15.2 x 22.9 cm 6 x 9 in Signed with initials 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...

Elizabeth Chalmers. Watercolour painting of cottages and gardens in the Cotswold village of Sherbourne. Size: H:29.00 cm x W:44.50 cm. Artist Bio: Elizabeth Chalmers was born in N...