Arthur Wilde Parsons Art

An excellent river valley view depicting the Gannel Estuary in Newquay, Cornwall. Very well presented in a decorative gold frame. Signed. On canvas.

Antique English 19th century oil of fishing boats at sea, with the sun setting. Wilde Parsons, was born at Stapleton, Gloucestershire in 1854, son of John Dungate Feather Stonehaugh Parsons, a musician, and his wife Jane née Taylor, who married at Clifton, Bristol in 1848. In 1861, a 7 year old, living at 1 Esplanade, South Parade, Weston-Super-Mare with his parents, 47 year old John and 46 year old Jane and his three siblings, John Featherstonehaugh 11, George Metford 9 and Ja,ne 5. Arthur studied locally and married at Barton Regis, Gloucestershire in 1881, Mary Waters Burridge (1847-1933). A little-known self-taught painter of marine pictures and an illustrator and in 1891, a 37 year old landscape painter living at 75 Hampton Park, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol with his 44 year old wife Mary, three children Arthur Dungate Burridge 8, Amy Mary 7 and Mary Elizabeth 5, with his mother Jane, his aunt and two boarders. He, exhibited in London infrequently from 1867 and his earliest subjects were th shores of the Bristol Channel, to be followed by Cornish Scenes painted on summer visits to his brother, the vicar of Crantock. He visitied Holland and about 1911 Italy...

An excellent river valley view, very well presented in a decorative gold frame. Signed. On canvas.

Arthur Wilde Parsons (1854-1931) - Fine Signed Original 1913 Oil. In a gilt frame, location is inscribed on the reverse of the canvas. Signed to the lower left by the artist. On canv...