Peter Greenham was a distinguished figurative painter of portraits, landscapes and incidents from domestic life. His work was both sensitive and intelligent and like himself, without showiness or pretension. He was the keeper of the Royal Academy Schools and a popular figure who taught many well-known artists including Martin Yeoman, Peter Kuhfeld, Edmund Fairfax-Lucy and Jane Corsellis. Greenham was born in Streatham and educated at Dulwich before studying English at Magdalen College, Oxford, followed by fine art at the Byam Shaw School of Art in Kensington from 1936–39 under the supervision of Ernest Jackson. After leaving Byam Shaw, he became a schoolmaster at Magdalen College School, Oxford and was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1951 and a Royal Academician in 1960. In 1964, he succeeded Sir Henry Rushbury as Keeper of the Royal Academy Schools, a position he held with distinction until his retirement in 1985. The Keeper has the responsibility of running the RA Schools and Greenham showed himself to have great sympathy and understanding for his students. In retirement, he was able to concentrate entirely on his painting and tended to paint places he knew well such as the Norfolk coast, Northumberland, Oxfordshire and Annecy as well as his wife, the painter Jane Dowling and his children. Among the people he has painted are HRH Queen Elizabeth II, Sir Isaiah Berlin, Professor Leonie Gombrich, Lady Bonham-Carter, Dr. F R Leavis and Lord Hailsham. His portraits of Jane and Father D'Arcy and Life Class at Byam Shaw School were bought under the terms of the Chantrey Bequest for the Tate Gallery. He is the author of a book on Velasquez. Greenham and Jane Dowling were given a retrospective touring exhibition under the sponsorship of the Arts Council and the Norwich School of Art from 1984–85 and Greenham had a Retrospective at the Ashmolean in 1989 to celebrate his 80th birthday.
Cromer Pier - Green, Blue + Brown 20th Century Seascape Oil Painting
By Peter Greenham
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Peter Greenham 1909-1992 Cromer Pier oil on canvas 30.5 x 40.6 cm 12 x 16 in signed with initials Peter Greenham was a distinguished figurative painter of portraits, landscapes and ...
Canvas, Oil
Peter Greenham (1909-1992) - 20th Century Oil, Uncommon Things
By Peter Greenham
Located in Corsham, GB
This intriguing still life attributed to Peter Greenham (1909-1992), presents an array of unusual objects carefully composed before a rich red curtain. The work is rendered with bold...
Oil
Interior with a Seated Figure - 20th Century Oil Painting with Female Figure
By Peter Greenham
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Peter Greenham British, 1909-1992 Interior with a Seated Figure oil on canvas-board 20.5 x 32.5 cm 8 1/8 x 12 3/4 in Peter Greenham was a distinguished figurative painter of portrai...
Canvas, Oil, Board
$4,756
Simonside, Northumberland - 20th Century Green Landscape Oil Painting with Cloud
By Peter Greenham
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Peter Greenham British, 1909-1992 Simonside, Northumberland oil on canvas board 13 x 26 cm 5 1/8 x 10 1/4 in signed with initials Peter Greenham was a distinguished figurative paint...
Canvas, Oil, Board
Playing on the Beach, Oil on Board Painting by Peter Greenham
By Peter Greenham
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Playing on the Beach, Oil on Board Painting by Peter Greenham 1909-1992 Additional information: Medium: Oil on board 25.4 x 35.6 cm 10 x 14 in Signed with initials Peter Greenham was a distinguished figurative painter of portraits, landscapes and incidents from domestic life. His work was both sensitive and intelligent and like himself, without showiness or pretension. He was keeper of the Royal Academy Schools and a popular figure who taught many well-known artists including Martin Yeoman, Peter Kuhfeld, Edmund Fairfax-Lucy and Jane Corsellis. Greenham was born in Streatham and educated at Dulwich before studying English at Magdalen College, Oxford, followed by Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art in Kensington from 1936-39 under the supervision of Ernest Jackson. After leaving Byam Shaw he became a schoolmaster at Magdalen College School, Oxford and was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1951 and an R.A. in 1960. In 1964 he succeeded Sir Henry Rushbury as Keeper of the Royal Academy Schools, a position he held with distinction until his retirement in 1985. The Keeper has the responsibility of running the RA Schools and Greenham showed himself to have great sympathy and understanding for his students. In retirement he was able to concentrate entirely on his painting and tended to paint places he knew well such as the Norfolk coast, Northumberland, Oxfordshire and Annecy as well as his wife, the painter Jane Dowling...
Board
$4,618
Landscape near Vezelay, 1983 - Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas, Tree and River
By Peter Greenham
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Landscape near Vezelay, Oil on Canvas Painting by Peter Greenham 1909-1992, 1983 Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas on board 25.4 x 30.5 cm 10 x 12 in Signed with initials Provenance Acquired from the 1998 exhibition by a private collector, UK. Exhibitions London, New Grafton Gallery, 'Peter Greenham', Dec 1998 Peter Greenham was a distinguished figurative painter of portraits, landscapes and incidents from domestic life. His work was both sensitive and intelligent and like himself, without showiness or pretension. He was keeper of the Royal Academy Schools and a popular figure who taught many well-known artists including Martin Yeoman, Peter Kuhfeld, Edmund Fairfax-Lucy and Jane Corsellis. Greenham was born in Streatham and educated at Dulwich before studying English at Magdalen College, Oxford, followed by Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art in Kensington from 1936-39 under the supervision of Ernest Jackson. After leaving Byam Shaw he became a schoolmaster at Magdalen College School, Oxford and was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1951 and an R.A. in 1960. In 1964 he succeeded Sir Henry Rushbury as Keeper of the Royal Academy Schools, a position he held with distinction until his retirement in 1985. The Keeper has the responsibility of running the RA Schools and Greenham showed himself to have great sympathy and understanding for his students. In retirement he was able to concentrate entirely on his painting and tended to paint places he knew well such as the Norfolk coast, Northumberland, Oxfordshire and Annecy as well as his wife, the painter Jane Dowling...
Canvas
From the Calcina, September (Venice), by Peter Greenham, 1991
By Peter Greenham
Located in Kingsclere, GB
From the Calcina, September (Venice), Watercolour over Pencil Painting, 1991 Additional information: Medium: Watercolour over pencil 15.2 x 21.6 cm 6 x 8 1/2 in Signed, dated and titled on the reverse Peter Greenham was a distinguished figurative painter of portraits, landscapes and incidents from domestic life. His work was both sensitive and intelligent and like himself, without showiness or pretension. He was keeper of the Royal Academy Schools and a popular figure who taught many well-known artists including Martin Yeoman, Peter Kuhfeld, Edmund Fairfax-Lucy and Jane Corsellis. Greenham was born in Streatham and educated at Dulwich before studying English at Magdalen College, Oxford, followed by Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art in Kensington from 1936-39 under the supervision of Ernest Jackson. After leaving Byam Shaw he became a schoolmaster at Magdalen College School, Oxford and was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1951 and an R.A. in 1960. In 1964 he succeeded Sir Henry Rushbury as Keeper of the Royal Academy Schools, a position he held with distinction until his retirement in 1985. The Keeper has the responsibility of running the RA Schools and Greenham showed himself to have great sympathy and understanding for his students. In retirement he was able to concentrate entirely on his painting and tended to paint places he knew well such as the Norfolk coast, Northumberland, Oxfordshire and Annecy as well as his wife, the painter Jane Dowling...
Watercolor
Mont St. Michel I, Oil on Board Figurative Landscape Painting, 20th C
By Peter Greenham
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Mont St. Michel I, Oil on Board Painting by Peter Greenham Additional information: Medium: Oil on Board 6 1/8 x 12 1/4 in 15.5 x 31.1 cm Signed with initials lower left A larger p...
Board
$5,170
Beach Scene, Norfolk Coast, Oil on Board Painting by Peter Greenham
By Peter Greenham
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Beach Scene, Norfolk Coast, Oil on Board Painting by Peter Greenham 1909-1992 Additional information: Medium: Oil on board 18.5 x 30 cm 7 1/4 x 11 3/4 in Signed with initials Provenance Jonleigh Gallery, Surrey Peter Greenham was a distinguished figurative painter of portraits, landscapes and incidents from domestic life. His work was both sensitive and intelligent and like himself, without showiness or pretension. He was keeper of the Royal Academy Schools and a popular figure who taught many well-known artists including Martin Yeoman, Peter Kuhfeld, Edmund Fairfax-Lucy and Jane Corsellis. Greenham was born in Streatham and educated at Dulwich before studying English at Magdalen College, Oxford, followed by Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art in Kensington from 1936-39 under the supervision of Ernest Jackson. After leaving Byam Shaw he became a schoolmaster at Magdalen College School, Oxford and was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1951 and an R.A. in 1960. In 1964 he succeeded Sir Henry Rushbury as Keeper of the Royal Academy Schools, a position he held with distinction until his retirement in 1985. The Keeper has the responsibility of running the RA Schools and Greenham showed himself to have great sympathy and understanding for his students. In retirement he was able to concentrate entirely on his painting and tended to paint places he knew well such as the Norfolk coast, Northumberland, Oxfordshire and Annecy as well as his wife, the painter Jane Dowling...
Board
Beach with Dark Sky, Oil on Board Painting by Peter Greenham
By Peter Greenham
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Beach with Dark Sky, Oil on Board Painting by Peter Greenham 1909-1992 Additional information: Medium: Oil on board 11 3/8 x 17 3/8 in 29 x 44 cm Exhibitions Possibly London, New Grafton Gallery, 'Jane Dowling...
Board
Lake Annecy, Oil on Board Painting by Peter Greenham
By Peter Greenham
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Lake Annecy, Oil on Board Painting by Peter Greenham 1909-1992 Additional information: Medium: Oil on board 18 x 27 cm 7 1/8 x 10 5/8 in Signed with initials Provenance Jonleigh Gallery, Surrey Peter Greenham was a distinguished figurative painter of portraits, landscapes and incidents from domestic life. His work was both sensitive and intelligent and like himself, without showiness or pretension. He was keeper of the Royal Academy Schools and a popular figure who taught many well-known artists including Martin Yeoman, Peter Kuhfeld, Edmund Fairfax-Lucy and Jane Corsellis. Greenham was born in Streatham and educated at Dulwich before studying English at Magdalen College, Oxford, followed by Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art in Kensington from 1936-39 under the supervision of Ernest Jackson. After leaving Byam Shaw he became a schoolmaster at Magdalen College School, Oxford and was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1951 and an R.A. in 1960. In 1964 he succeeded Sir Henry Rushbury as Keeper of the Royal Academy Schools, a position he held with distinction until his retirement in 1985. The Keeper has the responsibility of running the RA Schools and Greenham showed himself to have great sympathy and understanding for his students. In retirement he was able to concentrate entirely on his painting and tended to paint places he knew well such as the Norfolk coast, Northumberland, Oxfordshire and Annecy as well as his wife, the painter Jane Dowling...
Board
Price Upon Request
View from the Road Between Cambo and Hexham (Northumberland), Oil Painting
By Peter Greenham
Located in Kingsclere, GB
View from the Road Between Cambo and Hexham (Northumberland), Oil Painting by Peter Greenham 1909-1992 Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas 59.5 x 80 cm 23 3/8 x 31 1/2 in Peter Greenham was a distinguished figurative painter of portraits, landscapes and incidents from domestic life. His work was both sensitive and intelligent and like himself, without showiness or pretension. He was keeper of the Royal Academy Schools and a popular figure who taught many well-known artists including Martin Yeoman, Peter Kuhfeld, Edmund Fairfax-Lucy and Jane Corsellis. Greenham was born in Streatham and educated at Dulwich before studying English at Magdalen College, Oxford, followed by Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art in Kensington from 1936-39 under the supervision of Ernest Jackson. After leaving Byam Shaw he became a schoolmaster at Magdalen College School, Oxford and was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1951 and an R.A. in 1960. In 1964 he succeeded Sir Henry Rushbury as Keeper of the Royal Academy Schools, a position he held with distinction until his retirement in 1985. The Keeper has the responsibility of running the RA Schools and Greenham showed himself to have great sympathy and understanding for his students. In retirement he was able to concentrate entirely on his painting and tended to paint places he knew well such as the Norfolk coast, Northumberland, Oxfordshire and Annecy as well as his wife, the painter Jane Dowling...
Canvas
$1,200
H 17 in W 13 in D 1.25 in
"View of the Empire State NYC in Snow" Impressionistic Ashcan School Style
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
An impressionistic depiction of a figure in the snow with cars and buildings in the busy City Streets. The Empire State Building is portrayed in the background as the snow filled str...
Canvas, Oil, Board
$85,000
H 28 in W 47 in
"Paper Making" WPA Industrial Mid-Century American Scene Social Realism Workers
Located in New York, NY
"Paper Making" WPA Industrial Mid-Century American Scene Social Realism Workers Douglas Crockwell (1904-1968) "Paper Making" 19 x 39 inches Oil on board, c. 1936 Signed verso Framed: 28 x 47 Provenance: Estate of the Artist BIO Spencer Douglass Crockwell was born into a comfortable middle class household on April 29, 1904 in Columbus, Ohio. His father, Charles Roland Crockwell, was a mining engineer; his mother, Cora, was the daughter of an Iowa attorney. He became a commercial artist and experimental filmmaker who spent a good part of his career creating illustrations and advertisements for the Saturday Evening Post. In 1907 the Crockwell family moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he graduated from high school and then attended from Washington University. Initially he studied engineering, but soon switched to business. While still an undergraduate, Crockwell took courses at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts and quickly realized that he wanted to be an artist. After graduating from Washington University in 1926, Crockwell continued to study at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts until 1929. The following year he relocated to Chicago and continued his studies at the American Academy of Art. In 1930 and 1931 he studied in Europe on a Traveling Fellowship. In 1932 Douglass Crockwell moved to Glens Falls, New York, which was to be his home for the remainder of his life. The following year he married Margaret Braman. They had three children, a son Douglass and two daughters, Johanna and Margaret. During the depression he created murals and posters for the Works Progress Administration including Post Office murals in White River junction, Vermont; Endicott, New York; and Macon, Mississippi. In 1934 he painted Paper Workers, Finch Pruyn & Co. (the leading Glens Falls, New York company) for the WPA. In the 1930s Crockwell developed an interest in experimental animated films that occupied him for the rest of his life. In 1936 and 1937, he collaborated with David Smith, a sculptor, to create surrealist films. Because of his interest in experimental films, his output of paintings was limited to just twenty to forty illustrations a year during this time. Crockwell painted his first of many Saturday Evening Post cover in 1933. He also worked for Life, Look, and Esquire, and numerous national advertisers including Friskies dog food, Welch’s Grape Juice, Republic Steel...
Oil, Board
$5,500
H 10 in W 12 in D 2 in
Chess Players WPA Depression Era Mid-20th Century American Scene Realism Modern
By Mervin Jules
Located in New York, NY
Chess Players WPA Depression Era Mid-20th Century American Scene Realism Modern. Signed upper right and verso 8 x 10 inches oil on board. BIO The son of a men's haberdasher, Mervin ...
Oil, Board
$9,500
H 9.5 in W 7 in
Dusk Forest Scene, Catskills by Lockwood DeForest (American, 1850-1932)
By Lockwood DeForest
Located in New York, NY
"Dusk Forest Scene, Catskills," 1875 by Hudson River School painter Lockwood DeForest (American, 1850-1932) is oil on artists card-stock and measures 9.5 x 7 inches. The work is signed by DeForest, and dated May 13, 1875 at lower right. The work is framed in an elegant, period appropriate frame, and ready to hang. Lockwood DeForest was born in New York in 1850 to a prominent family. He grew up in Greenwich Village and on Long Island at the family summer estate in Cold Spring Harbor. As was customary for a cultivated family in the Gilded Age, the DeForests made frequent trips abroad. Excursions to the great museums, which were prominent on the DeForests agenda, deepened the young Lockwood's familiarity with European painting and sculpture. Though he had begun drawing and painting somewhat earlier, it was during a visit to Rome in 1868 that nineteen-year-old DeForest first began to study art seriously, taking painting lessons from the Italian landscapist Hermann David Salomon Corrodi (1844–1905). More importantly, on the same trip, Lockwood met one of America’s most celebrated painters, (and his maternal great- uncle by marriage) Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), who quickly became his mentor. DeForest accompanied Church on sketching trips around Italy and continued this practice when they both returned to America in 1869. Early on in his career, de Forest made a habit of recording the date and often the place of his oil sketches, as to create a visual diary of his travels. Lockwood’s profession as a landscape painter can be primarily attributed to Frederic E. Church and his belief in the young artist’s talent. DeForest often visited Church in the Hudson River community of Catskill where, in addition to sketching trips and afternoons of painting, he assisted with the architectural drawings and planning of Olana. In 1872, DeForest took a studio at the Tenth Street Studio Building in New York. During these formative years DeForest counted among his friend’s artists such as Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823–80), George Henry Yewell (1830–1923), John Frederick Kensett (1816–72), Jervis McEntee (1828–91), and Walter Launt Palmer (1854–1932). Over the next decade DeForest experienced success as a painter. He exhibited for the first time at the National Academy of Design in 1872, and made two more painting trips abroad, in 1875–76 and 1877–78, traveling to the major continental capitals but also the Middle East and North Africa. His trip to the Middle East and the library at Church’s home, Olana, established his interest in design during his mid-twenties. From about 1878 to 1902, landscape painting was overshadowed by his activities and preoccupation with East Indian architecture and décor, a style that became quite fashionable in late nineteenth century America. From 1879-1883, de Forest founded Associated Artists along with Louis Comfort Tiffany, Candace Wheeler...
Oil, Board
$1,421
H 13.39 in W 11.23 in D 1.19 in
Allegory of Love, Cupid With Beauty in Fine Dress Carrying a Basket of Flowers
Located in Cotignac, FR
A late 18th Century oil on canvas laid on board of a young beauty in period costume carrying a basket of flowers on her head. Presented in a very fine gilt, period 'Directoire' frame...
Canvas, Oil, Board
$2,500
H 11.5 in W 13.5 in D 1.25 in
"Point Pleasant" Bucks County New Hope PA River Snow Scene Oil Painting Framed
By Christopher Willett 1
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful Impressionist winter pastoral scene of colorful quaint homes by the river. Willet has portrayed this piece in a most intimate, yet energetic way, and has packed much feel...
Oil, Board, Canvas
$1,800
H 18.38 in W 14.38 in
The Artist, American Impressionist, 1928, Oil on Canvas on Board, Painter, Woods
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Leon Foster Jones was born in Manchester, New Hampshire. He studied under Joseph Rodefer DeCamp and Ernest Lee Major at the Cowles Art School in ...
Canvas, Oil, Board
$4,500
H 16 in W 28.75 in
"Last Light on the Marsh" Dennis Sheehan, Reflections, Tonalist, Orange Sunset
By Dennis Sheehan
Located in New York, NY
Dennis Sheehan Last Light on the Marsh, circa 2025 Signed lower right Oil on canvas laid to foam board 16 x 28 3/4 inches Dennis Sheehan was born in Boston in 1950. His work is bas...
Canvas, Oil, Foam Board
$1,723
H 10.5 in W 10.5 in D 1.75 in
Miniature Painting of Victoria Embankment London & Houses of Parliament in Rain
By Angela Wakefield
Located in Preston, GB
Miniature Painting of Victoria Embankment London & Houses of Parliament, Westminster in the Rain - a unique original from leading Contemporary Cityscape Artist, Angela Wakefield. Par...
Gesso, Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Board
$8,000
H 12.5 in W 11.5 in D 0.75 in
"Sailing at Sunset" Realist Oil Painting on Canvas Board of Sailboat in Open Sea
By George Nemethy
Located in New York, NY
George Nemethy finds his inspiration in moments of quiet and solitude. Where he finds himself one with the sea and the sky and the tranquil world which he freely escapes to. Trained from an early age by his father Albert Nemethy, a world-renowned painter known best for his large scale steamer boats, George found and nurtured his passion for miniature sailboats...
Oil, Board, Canvas
Home Safe
By James Gale Tyler
Located in Greenville, DE
Very well executed seascape. Alternate title "In Point" inscribed on the rear. 17 x 15in in frame, including linen liner. ...
Oil, Board
$7,000
H 40 in W 37.5 in D 1.75 in
"Venetian Town Scene" Romantic Impressionist Oil Painting Street Scene & Figures
By Luigi Cagliani
Located in New York, NY
A whimsical oil painting depicting a Street Scene in Venice of people going about their day by Luigi Cagliani. As an Italian Impressionist artist, most of Cagliani's works were produ...
Canvas, Oil, Board
All Souls College, Oxford
By Peter Greenham
Located in Douglas, Isle of Man
Peter Greenham RA 1902-1992 , was an English painter who was educated at Dulwich College and Oxford University. He painted portraits, landscapes and se...
Watercolor
Sold
H 31 in W 27 in D 2 in
Lady Priscilla Burton - British art 20thC Impressionist portrait oil painting
By Peter Greenham
Located in Hagley, England
Painted by the noted British Post Impressionist artist Peter Greenham, this fine oil on canvas depicts Priscilla, Lady Burton of Aldham Mill, Hadleigh. She was the second wife of Sir...
Oil