By Sydney Lough Thompson
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on panel seascape circa 1930 by New Zealand post impressionist painter Sydney Lough Thompson. The work depicts sailboats in the water at Concarneau, a commune in the Finistere department of Brittany in Northwestern France.
Signature:
Signed lower right
Dimensions:
Framed: 14"x16"
Unframed: 8.5"x10.5"
Provenance:
Private collection - Switzerland
Sydney Lough Thompson was born on 24 January 1877 at Oxford, Canterbury, New Zealand. He was one of six sons and three surviving daughters of Charles Abel Thompson, a shoemaker, and his wife, Sophia Matilda Lough. His father was a man of some enterprise, who had come to New Zealand as a young man and had established a general store in Oxford, before purchasing a sheep farm about four miles from town. Sydney attended school locally before beginning work on his father's farm as a boy of 13.
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Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Octave Guillonnet Paintings