Pierre Edouard Frere

Village Landscape - French 19thC Impressionist oil painting France

1860

This vibrant Post Impressionist oil on canvas painting is by Bernard Fleetwood Walker circa 1925. The painting is of a French vineyard with the picturesque landscape running up to a hillside village. The impressionist palette really gives one the sense of it being a hot summer's day. Signed lower left. Provenance. Midlands estate. Condition. Oil on board, 18 inches by 14 inches approx and in excellent condition. Framed in a complimentary frame 25 inches by 21 inches framed and in good condition. Bernard Fleetwood-Walker , PPRBSA, (1893-1965) was an English artist and teacher of painting. In variably known as B. Fleetwood-Walker, he was born in Birmingham, a twin and one of five children. His father William Walker was an electrical engineer and co-inventor of the Walker-Wilkins battery, while his mother Electra Amelia (née Varley) was granddaughter of the 19th century watercolourist Cornelius Varley...

This Italian landscape is an oil on canvas, framed behind glass in its original gallery frame, by Susan Isabel Dacre. A superb painting, painted circa 1888. Dacre was an early member of the Feminist movement and a member of the Manchester arts community. She travelled with Lord Leighton and exhibited widely. This work shows influences of early British impressionism. The painting depicts an Italian landscape with a road sweeping around a hill with dwellings and trees. The brushwork and palette are superb. An excellent example of a 19th century women artists work. Signed lower left. Provenance. Family collection. Condition. Oil on canvas. Image size 13 inches by 10 inches. canvas in original excellent condition. Housed in an original gilt frame 20 inches by 17 inches approx. and in good condition. Susan Isabel Dacre (1844 – 1933) was an English female artist of the Victorian era. She was born in Leamington, Warwickshire, and was educated in Salford. For the decade of 1858–68 she lived in Paris. After a winter in Italy (1869), she returned to Paris, and was present during the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune. She returned to England in 1871 and began studying art at the Manchester School of Art, where she won the Queen's Prize in 1875. She began a lifelong friendship with fellow artist Annie Swynnerton; the two women pursued their art studies in Rome and Paris between 1874 and 1880. Around 1872, Lord Leighton dictated notes and observations on his methods of painting and composing his pictures to Susan Dacre during a stay on the island of Capri. From 1877-1880 she was in Paris at the Académie Julian with a fellow - pupil Marie Bashkirtseff...

This lovely oil painting is by noted 19th century born Wolverhampton artist Joseph Vickers De Ville. The Wolverhampton gallery is home to many of his works, some of which are usually...

A fine landscape oil painting by noted British artist Leonard Richmond. It is a wonderful panoramic view of a French town and surrounding landscape by Richmond, who painted many views around Les Andeleys in France and dates to circa 1940. Beautiful colouring and light in a fine impressionist palette. Unsigned. Provenance. Purchased direct form the artist at his St Ives studio. Condition. Oil on canvas. Image size 32 inches by 24 inches in good original condition. Housed in a fine gallery frame 38 by 30 inches. Excellent condition. Leonard Richmond (1889-1965) was born in Somerset and studied at Taunton and Chelsea Polytechnic. In WWI he was the Canadian Government war artist and in 1925 was commissioned to promote rail and hotel facilities through poster art in western Canada, by the Canadian Pacific Railway...

A fine impressionist landscape by the 19th century French painter Loouis Boulanger (1806-1867). Oil on canvas 15"x21,3/4" 38cmx 55cm The original giltwood frame: 22"x28" , 56cmx 72cm. A fine plein air study of a stoney outcrop on the edge of a French village circa 1860. Boulanger was famous during his lifetime for his portraits of the intelligentsia of Paris society during the 19th century including Victor Hugo. He was also a great follower of the early impressionist landscape painters this being a fine example of his work. A well balanced composition and an intense study of afternoon light in a French landscape. Signed lower right. Provenance : Estate collection, Paris Good condition. Higher resolution images available on request. Viewing welcome . Worldwide shipping available. Louis Boulanger (11 March 1806, Vercelli, Piedmont - 5 March 1867, Dijon) was a French Romantic painter, lithographer and illustrator. Life He enrolled in 1821 at the École des beaux-arts where he attended the workshop of Guillaume Guillon Lethière and received a solid classical training. Next he made a présentation for the prix de Rome, in 1824, in which he finished logiste. He became the companion of Eugène Devéria...

Countryside village oil on canvas France 19th century with minor losses.

Artist/ School: French Impressionist School, 20th century, indistinctly signed Title: Provencal country landscape Medium: signed oil painting on canvas, framed Size: framed: 2...

A beautiful 1930's French impressionist oil on board depicting a village water well by Jeanne Lauvernay-Pettitjean, the wife of Edmond Marie Pettitjean. The work is very atmospheric...