John Robertson Reid Art

This oil painting of Musselburgh Racecourse is a beautifully detailed snapshot of 19th-century life, capturing the essence of a moment filled with diverse characters, lively interac...

This oil painting of a bustling harbor scene in Calais, France, is a beautifully detailed snapshot of 19th-century life, capturing the essence of a moment filled with diverse charact...

A very fine watercolour attributed to the Scottish painter John Robertson Reid (1851-1926), depicting fishing boats and gondolas on a Venetian canal. The artist has employed a delicate and considered technique, with a light palette and subtle reflections in the surface of the canal. This work has a striking resemblance in form and technique to other works by Reid, also depicting Venetian canals and bridges. Handsomely presented within a titled double washline mount and an excellent bird's eye maple frame, as shown. Unsigned. On wove. Image Size: 25.4 x 36.4cm (10" x 14.3") Framed Size: 51.2 x 61.7cm (20.2" x 24.3") Artists Biography: John Robertson Reid (1851–1926) was a Scottish painter who spent his early working life in Surrey, and then from the early 1880s in Cornwall in the wild south-west of England. He became the president of the Society of British Artists in 1886 and the Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers in 1898. These posts gave him an entree into London society, and from the early 1900s he made his home in London. In Reid's later years, the young Sir Winston Churchill used to paint outdoors in the company of Reid. He trained under George Chalmers and William MacTaggart. His mature style was influenced by the move in painting toward rural Naturalism (Sir George Clausen) and the French Realists (Jules Bastien-Lepage) and also owes a little to Impressionism. He first found success with natural outdoor scenes of the Surrey countryside, and was notable at the time for painting his scenes entirely on location, with the use of hired local people posing in the scene. He also painted notable rural cricket match scenes, one of which now contain details of interest to cricketing historians. This is A Country Cricket Match, painted in the grounds at the rear of The Well House...