Paul Earee Art

ARTIST: Paul Earee (1888-1968) British TITLE: “Sudbury Suffolk” SIGNED: lower right MEDIUM: oil on canvas SIZE: 101cm x 81cm inc frame CONDITION: excellent DETAIL: As Frederick Percy Eary, he was born at Sudbury, Suffolk on 16 July 1888, son of Albert Henry Eary (11 November 1862-1941), mat weaver, and his wife Hannah (6 July 1860-1939), who married at Sudbury in 1883 and in 1939 were living at 5 Acton Square, Sudbury. In 1891, a 2-year-old living with his parents at Railway Cottages, Station Road, Sudbury. Paul was educated at St Peters and St Gregory’s School, Sudbury and in 1911, as Fred Percy Eary, a 22-year-old architect’s assistant, living at The Fennels, Suffolk Road, Sudbury with his parents, 47-year-old Albert and 48-year-old Annie, and his 14-year-old sister Florence Anne. Known as Paul Earee, an artist who was a professionally trained as an ecclesiastical architect, art teacher and illustrator, using his spare time in painting, etchings and drawing with strong regional content. In 1922 in an architectural partnership with Noel Haslewood, as Earee & Haslewood at 36 Market Hill, Sudbury. As an architect he designed many buildings and interiors in Sudbury including the pulpit of St Gregory’s church, a petrol store for Dixon, Scott (1913), two houses in Gainsborough Road for C. E. Dennington (1913), Sudbury Union Hospital additions (1914) and the re-seating of Gainsborough Theatre (1914). In 1920 a founder of the Sudbury Dramatic Society and in 1922 of the Stour Valley Group when as F. P. Earee he exhibited ‘View from Prospect Hill...