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Cornwall Harbour View, circa 1930 by Sir Walter Westley Russell CVO RA

St Ives, early 20th Century by WILLIAM LEE HANKEY (1869-1952) Large Early 20th costal landscape view of St Ives, Cornwall, oil on canvas by William Lee Hankey. Excellent quality an...

View Of The Coast, Cornwall, dated 1899 by ALBERT CHEVALLIER TAYLER (1862-1925) saleds to $1,100,000 19th Century view of the coast from a ...

Hayle, Cornwall, 19th Century by EDMUND FULLER (1858-1944) sales to $10,000 Large 19th Century view of Halle, Cornwall, oil on canvas by Edmund Fuller. Excellent quality panoramic ...

A Country Lane, Somerset, dated 1939 by THOMAS WILLIAM ARMES (1894-1963) Large 1939 English Country lane landscape, Somerset, oil on canvas by Thomas William Armes. Good quality an...

A charming scene of a coastal town in Cornwall with various boats moored on the beach. The artist has signed to the lower right and the work has been presented in a sleek black frame...

A panoramic harbour scene on the Cornish coast. Presented in a distressed gilt-effect wooden frame. Signed to the lower-left edge. Title inscribed verso. On canvas on stretchers.

A wonderful mid-century study of boats moored in a harbour. The low tide has revealed much of the old stone walls of the harbour. Wonderfully painted with areas of impasto and thick,...

Gyrth Russell. Canadian ( b.1892 - d.1970 ). Before The Hot Day Brightens To Blue (Mevagissey Harbor, Cornwall). Oil On Canvas. Signed Lower Right. Image size 22.4 inches x 34.8 inches ( 57cm x 88.5cm ). Frame size 28.5 inches x 40.6 inches ( 72.5cm x 103cm ). Available for sale; this original oil painting is by Gyrth Russell and dates from post WWII. The painting is presented and supplied in a 1960s frame (which is shown in these photographs). The painted surfaces have benefitted from cleaning and conservation, which took place on our instruction, supervision and approval. This vintage painting is now in very good condition, commensurate with its age. It wants for nothing and is supplied ready to hang and display. The painting is signed lower right. Previously with the Howard Roberts Gallery, Cardiff. Considered one of the best coastal painters of the 20th century, Gyrth Russell was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in April 1892. He was the youngest of 8 children. His father was a Canadian MP and a Supreme High Court Judge for Nova Scotia. At the age of fourteen, Russell began his artistic career at Halifax School of Art, and quickly graduated to the School of Art at Boston, Massachusetts. His first job was as a draughtsman in the Public Works Department of Canada, in Halifax. It was during this period he saw and sketched the cable ship Mackay Bennett returning to her Halifax Station, her decks piled high with coffins containing bodies found after the Titanic Disaster. In 1911 Russell left Canada to study at the Academie Julian and Academie Calorossi in Paris. In 1914 at the outbreak of War, he left France for London where he was commissioned, under the command of Lord Beaverbrook, as an official War Artist for the Canadian Sector, and spent most of 1918 in Northern France painting the landscapes and coasts travelled by the Canadian military during the conflict. During the course of the First World War he worked with amongst others, Augustus John, William Orpen & Frank Brangwyn, who greatly influenced him. Many of his earliest works are of landscapes and coasts travelled by the Canadian military in the conflict. During the War Russell also made etchings and poster prints for sale to help popularize and support the war effort abroad. He took part in the Canadian War Memorial Exhibition in London in 1919. Between the Wars, Russell earned his living as an artist in film studios, designing Railway Posters, Lecturing and Writing. He also illustrated books on the geography of Nova Scotia and Western Britain. Russell enjoyed considerable success between the Wars, exhibiting extensively at the major galleries, and was elected to membership of the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Institute of Painters and Watercolorists, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Royal Society of Marine Artists as well as being an active member of the Langham...