Sydney Ernest Hart

The Midnight Sun from the top of the North Cape

1896

1917 - 2000 Born in Pidzhakovo, Orenburg, Russia. Studied at the prestigious Moscow Art Institute from 1943 to 1948. He began exhibiting in 1949 and participated in numerous e...

Snow Bound oil on stretched canvas. Image is 16 x 22 unframed and 21.5 x 27.5 framed. The painting signed front LL in what looks like an original frame. Painting could use a light ...

Sunrise Sensation II is a beautiful impressionistic landscape scene that is the enlarged version of a smaller study also listed here on 1stdibds. The painting is on a canvas and exud...

Charles P Gruppe 1860-1940 Marine with a Woman on the boat. Most likely a Dutch Harbor scene, windmill observed, where Gruppe was one of the few accepted American artists. oil canvas...

Winter Evening oil/canvas panel 16 x 22 image The frame is touched up but presentable. SELLERS STATEMENT I have been in the art business as an artist and dealer since the early 80'...

Wilfred Stanley Pettitt (1904-1978) The Blackwater from Bradwell Quay Signed, inscribed with title verso Oil on board 9 x 10¾ inches unframed 14¾ x 16¾ inches with the frame Wilfred Stanley Pettitt was born in Great Yarmouth in 1904, the fourth child in a family of eight; he studied at the Great Yarmouth School of Art and Norwich School of Art. When his father’s art shop in Great Yarmouth floundered during the First World War the family moved to a small holding in Reedham. This developed into the firm known as “Pettitts Ltd of Reedham” and was run by the family; more recently, having new owners, it is now called “Pettitts Animal Adventure Park”. When Wilfred Pettitt married in 1929, he and his wife, Bessie, settled at 38 Earlham Green Lane, Norwich. The year before he had the first of several Royal Academy hangings (1928-1948). His work was also exhibited by the “Royal Society of British Arts” and the “Royal Cambrian Academy”. In the 1920’s he began experimenting in wood cuts and etchings but he was mainly an East Anglian landscape painter in oil, acknowledging Constable as an influence. The greatest impression on the young artist was made by Sir Arnesby Brown...