Peter Gilman

Small late 20th Century Impressionist Marine OIL PAINTING Aldeburgh Suffolk

1980

ARTIST: B. McDermott (mid 20th Century) English / French School TITLE: "French Beach Scene" SIGNED: lower right MEDIUM: oil on canvas SIZE: 76cm x 56cm inc frame CONDITION: very g...

Artist: Unsigned (Mid 20th Century) Scottish School Title: "Sunset Seascape" Medium: oil on board Condition: Very good Size: 26cm x 12cm inc frame Comment: A beautiful little Scott...

ARTIST: John Speirs (1942-2022) South African / British TITLE: 'Swift Swift" MEDIUM: oil on board SIZE: 68cm x 58cm inc frame NOTES: Schooled in Cape Town...

ARTIST: Philip Tyler (1964-) British TITLE: "Norfolk Landscape" (1996) SIGNED: lower right MEDIUM: oil acrylic on board SIZE: 41cm x 36cm inc frame CONDITION: excellent DETAIL...

Geoffrey Chatten, R.B.A. Born Gorleston 1938 Popular impressionist painter, member of the Royal Society of Artists and Great Yarmouth Society of Artists. Signed, title inscribed ver...

A wonderful summer sky in this well known Suffolk view. Geoffrey Chatten ( born 1942) Shingle Street, Suffolk Signed Oil on board 14 x 21 inches inc...

Beach Scene, Norfolk Coast, Oil on Board Painting by Peter Greenham 1909-1992 Additional information: Medium: Oil on board 18.5 x 30 cm 7 1/4 x 11 3/4 in Signed with initials Provenance Jonleigh Gallery, Surrey 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...

A very beautiful English impressionist oil on board depicting figures on Caistor Beach near Great Yarmouth in Nirfolk by the popular English artist Geoffrey Chatten. This excellent...