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Orlando Norie. Scottish ( b.1832 - d.1901 ). Royal Canadian Horse Artillery Officer. Watercolor. Signed Lower Right. Image size: 5.9 inches x 4.1 inches ( 15cm x 10.5cm ). Frame size: 11.4 inches x 9.3 inches ( 29cm x 23.5cm ). Available for sale; this original painting is by Orlando Norie and dates from the 1870s. The watercolor is presented and supplied in a sympathetic contemporary frame (which is shown in these photographs), mounted using conservation materials and behind non-reflective Tru Vue UltraVue® UV70 glass. This antique painting is in very good condition, commensurate with its age. It wants for nothing and is supplied ready to hang and display. The watercolor is signed lower right. Orlando Norie is considered to have been one of the foremost illustrators of the British army in the 19th century, with thousands of watercolors to his credit in public and private collections. His pictures are highly sought after and command high prices. He was a descendant of the celebrated Edinburgh family of artists and designers, son of Sir Robert Norie and a descendant of James Norie the Elder. He was born in Bruges, and may have spent time with his family in France and Belgium. From about 1870 he produced works from a rented studio close to the army barracks in Aldershot, but also travelled and was active in Dunkirk. Lithographs were made from his drawings of the battles of the Alma, Balaklava and Inkerman in the Crimean War. © Big Sky Fine Art Norie is best known for his prolific output of battle paintings and accurate and detailed illustrations of military...

Paul-Jean Anderbouhr. French ( b.1909 - d.2006 ). The Ravages Of War On Rouen, Painted In 1944. Oil On Canvas. Signed Lower Left. Image size 23.2 inches x 28.5 inches ( 59cm x 72.5cm...

Keith Bayliss. Welsh ( b.1954 ). Moonlight Embrace. Watercolor & Ink. Signed Lower Left. Image size 10.4 inches x 14.4 inches ( 26.5cm x 36.5cm ). Frame size 16.7 inches x 20.1 inc...

Julian Ruddock. British ( b.1965 ). Lost Hedgerows. Pastel On Paper. Signed Lower Right. Image size 21.9 inches x 25 inches ( 55.5cm x 63.5cm ). Frame size 29 inches x 32.1 inches ...

Anthony Morris. English ( b.1938 ). Llangynidr Bridge Over The River Usk In Winter. Wales. Oil On Artist's Board. Signed Lower Right. Image size 6.7 inches x 8.7 inches ( 17cm x 22...

Gwilym Prichard. Welsh ( b.1931 - d.2015 ). Three Pears, 2011. Oil On Canvas Board. Signed With A Monogram Lower Left. Image size 9 inches x 6.1 inches ( 23cm x 15.5cm ). Frame size ...

Dame Elisabeth Frink. English ( b.1930 - d.1993 ). Maquette For Man And Eagle. Bronze With Gold Brown Patina. Signed And Numbered 1/7 Lower Left. Size 8.7 inches x 10.2 inches ( 22cm x 26cm ). Depth 2.8 inches ( 7cm ). Weight 7.1lb ( 3.24KG). Available for sale; this original bronze plaque with raised relief is by Dame Elisabeth Frink and was conceived and cast in 1967. The maquette is presented and supplied unmounted. There is the option to hang the plaque from 2 rings applied to the rear when in previous ownership. This vintage bronze plaque...

Elizabeth Rosemary Ziar. English ( b.1919 - d.2003 ). The North Coast Of Cornwall, West Penwith. Watercolor. Signed Monogram Lower Right. Image size 15 i...

John Rattenbury Skeaping. English ( b.1901 - d.1990 ). A Tight Finish, 1970. Gouache & Watercolor. Signed & Dated Lower Right. Image size 21.5 inches x 29.1 inches ( 54.5cm x 74...

Donald McIntyre. English ( b.1923 - d.2009 ). Girl And Chapel, North Wales. Oil On Card. Signed With Monogram Twice Lower Left. Image size 12 inches x 15.6 inches ( 30.5cm x 39.5cm ...

James Fry. English ( b.1911 - d.1985 ). Falling Tide, Poole Harbor With The Purbeck Hills Beyond, Dorset. Oil On Board. Signed With Monogram Lower Right. Image size 9.8 inches x 14 i...

John Kingerlee. Irish ( b.1936 ). John, 1967. A Self-Portrait. Ink On Paper. Signed & Dated Lower Left. Image size 11 inches x 8.5 inches ( 28cm x 21.5cm ). Frame size 15 inches x ...

Edward Matthew Elliott. English ( b.1869 - d.1955 ). St Ives Harbor At Low Tide. Cornwall. Oil On Board. Signed Lower Left. Image size 11.4 inches x 17.3 inches ( 29cm x 44cm ). Fra...

Donald McIntyre. English ( b.1923 - d.2009 ). Stormy Day, Craster, Northumberland Oil On Paper Mounted On Board. Signed Lower Left. Image size 16.3 inches x 32.5 inches ( 41.5cm x 8...

David Knight. English ( b.1965 ). White Linen. Oil On Canvas. Signed Lower Left. Image size 13.4 inches x 23.6 inches ( 34cm x 60cm ). Frame size 19.1 inches x 29.1 inches ( 48.5cm x 74cm ). Available for sale; this original oil painting is by David Knight. The painting is presented and supplied in its original frame (which is shown in these photographs). This piece is in superb condition. It wants for nothing and is supplied ready to hang and display. The painting is signed lower left. A popular and acclaimed contemporary Welsh based...

Joan Gillchrest. English ( b.1918 - d.2008 ). Cornish Fishing Boats At First Light. Oil On Paper Mounted On Board. Signed Monogram Lower Right. Image size 26.2 inches x 22 inches ( 66.5cm x 56cm ). Frame size 35.8 inches x 31.3 inches ( 91cm x 79.5cm ). Available for sale; this original oil painting is by the Cornish artist Joan Gillchrest and dates from around the late 1980s. The oil painting is presented and supplied in a sympathetic new replacement frame (which is shown in these photographs) that suits the artwork’s color palette and behind non-reflective Tru Vue UltraVue® UV70 glass. This painting is in excellent condition and presents superbly. It wants for nothing and is ready to hang and display. The painting is signed with her monogram lower right. Joan Gillchrest is one of Mousehole’s and Cornwall’s most recognised and celebrated artists. Her vibrant art sits firmly alongside other great artists of the St. Ives School from the 1960s. She was born Joan Scott in London in 1918 into a wealthy and illustrious family. She was the third of four children. Her father was a pioneer of radiology – and a skilful caricaturist - and her Australian mother was an accomplished pianist. Sir George Gilbert Scott was her great grandfather, who designed the imposing Midland Grand Hotel at St. Pancras as well as countless parish churches. Grandfather, George Gilbert Scott Jnr, is remembered for three Cambridge colleges, Christ’s, Pembroke and Peterhouse. Her uncle Giles, (Giles Gilbert Scott) to whom Joan was close, is best known for his magnificent Anglican Liverpool Cathedral, Battersea Power Station and the iconic and ubiquitous red telephone box. Coming from such a long line of eminent architects it is not surprising that Joan always loved architecture and the churches and chapels of the Penwith peninsula feature prominently in her work. She said that buildings were “in her blood”. Her early childhood was spent at the family home in Buckinghamshire, but she was a difficult child – the family hired one nanny for her and one for the other three children- and at one point she was sent to Upper Chine School in the Isle of Wright to give her family some peace! She was however the apple of her father’s eye and he encouraged her obvious artistic talent. In 1934, aged only 15 but encouraged by her parents, she went to Paris to study art and learn the language. There she met Gwen John and studied in various studios, sometimes working as a model. In 1936 she enrolled at the Grosvenor School of Art and subsequently studied there under Iain McNab, whom she described as a marvelous teacher. Her early artistic career was very promising; she first exhibited at the Royal Academy when she was just 18 and showed works at the New England Art Club in 1937 and the London Group in 1938. When the Second World War broke out Joan was 21. She took a crash course in nursing and first aid and volunteered as an ambulance driver for Westminster Hospital. She later drove a mobile rescue unit. She was not able to paint much during the war but kept in touch with McNab; when the area around St Paul’s was blitzed, leaving the cathedral relatively unscathed, McNab got Joan and a few others to paint the scene. Her work, created with a thick paint and a palette knife, hung in the art school for many years. Joan’s painting career stalled in the 1940s. In 1942 she married a barrister and Coldstream Guards officer Samuel Gillchrest, and they soon had a son, then a daughter. With a young family, she had little time to paint, and had to hide the work she did produce as her husband thought that work as an artist was beneath them. Sadly, the marriage broke down and in 1953 they divorced. In leaving a difficult marriage at this time, she forfeited money, security and her previous place in society. Despite the huge changes in her life, her overwhelming desire to paint remained constant. She ignored the disapproval of her friends and family and started to explore new ways of expressing herself on canvas. She moved to a studio in Chelsea, an area much favored by the artistic community. To support herself, her children and her painting she also found regular work as an artist’s model. She was tall, strikingly good looking and combined elegance with bohemianism. She also carried an air of mystery from her rich and privileged past, and so she became sought after as a fashion model. In the flat below hers lived an artist who had enjoyed some professional acclaim, Adrian Ryan...

Stanley Horace Gardiner. English ( b.1887 - d.1952 ). The Road To Cliff, Nr Fowey, Cornwall 1926. Watercolor. Signed & Dated 1926 Lower Left. Image size 13.4 inches x 11.4 inches ( 3...

Stanley Horace Gardiner. English ( b.1887 - d.1952 ). Tide Pools, Porthcurno Beach, Cornwall. Oil On Artist’s Board. Signed Lower Left. Image size 12.4 inches x 15.6 inches ( 31.5cm ...

William Arthur Breakspeare. English ( b.1855 - d.1914 ). A Rendezvous In The Park In The Autumn Fall. Oil On Panel. Signed Lower Right. Image size 12.6 inches x 7.3 inches ( 32cm x 1...

Meryl Watts. English ( b.1910 – d.1992 ) Enigma. Oil On Board. Signed Lower Right. Image size 22.4 inches x 19.3 inches ( 57cm x 49cm ). Frame size 26.4 inches x 22.8 inches ( 67cm x 58cm ). Available for sale; this original oil painting is by Meryl Watts and dates from the mid-1960s. The painting is presented and supplied in its’ original hand painted frame (which is shown in these photographs). This vintage painting is in very good condition, commensurate with its age. It wants for nothing and is supplied ready to hang and display. The painting was created whilst Watts resided at 1 Bron Avon, Borth-y-Gest, Porthmadog. (Today’s postcode would be LL49 9TU). The painting is signed lower right. Meryl Watts was born on the 5th April 1910, the only child of Charles and Evelin Watts. They lived in Germains Place, Blackheath and she was raised in east end of London where her father was a printer. She studied at the Blackheath Art School, where the Principal was John Edgar Platt, one of the major artists using the technique of color woodcut. She learned this technique from Platt and was influenced by his style, as shown in the attractive and colorful designs that she subsequently produced. Meryl began to work independently in 1937, producing her own work while still living in Blackheath. During World War II the family home and business were destroyed by German bombing and Meryl and her parents were given just a few hours to collect whatever valuables they could before their house was demolished to protect neighboroughing properties from further damage. As a consequence much of her early work was lost. Having left their home the family evacuated to Portmeirion in Wales, where they had frequently stayed on holiday before the war. They struck up a friendship with the Portmeirion architect and founder, Sir Clough William-Ellis. Portmeirion was founded in 1925 and took nearly fifty years to complete. It was a homage to Sir William-Ellis’ love of the Italian Riviera and incorporated the grounds of a twelfth century castle. The resort became extremely popular with tourists and was the backdrop for various TV programs and films, including The Prisoner. Meryl Watts became artist in residence at Portmeirion, and over the next few years she produced an abundance of artwork including sketches, oil paintings and watercolors of famous scenes from the Snowdonia coastal region and other traditional landmarks. This was a new and very successful chapter of her artistic career. From Portmeirion Meryl and her parents moved to a rented house in Borth-Y-Gest, Caernarvonshire, North Wales. In 1944 Meryl’s father purchased the house and Meryl began to work there, using the endless views in the area for her inspiration. After the death of her father in 1957 and her mother in 1969 Meryl lived alone in Borth-y-Gest until she married Professor Joseph Allen...

Tony Giles. English ( b.1925 - d.1994 ). Vows Are Spoken Only To Be Broken. Oil On Board. Signed Lower Right. Image size 39.6 inches x 29.5 inches ( 100.5cm...

Ronald Maddox. English ( b.1930 - d.2018 ). Landscape Pattern, Glen Lyon, Scotland, 1980. Watercolor. Signed Lower Right. Image size 13.6 inches x 23.6 inches ( 34.5cm x 60cm ). Frame size 20.3 inches x 30.3 inches ( 51.5cm x 77cm ). Available for sale; this original painting is by the former long-standing President of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, Ronald Maddox, and dates from 1980. The watercolor is presented and supplied in a sympathetic and contrasting contemporary frame to suit the subject coloration (which is shown in these photographs) and behind non-reflective Tru Vue UltraVue® UV70 glass. This vintage piece is in superb condition. It wants for nothing and is supplied ready to hang and display. The watercolor is signed lower right. Provenance: The painting was exhibited at the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours at The Mall Galleries at 17 Carlton Terrace, SW.1, London in 1980. The exhibition label from the previous backboard of the painting has been retained and affixed to the rear of the new backboard. Ronald Maddox was an accomplished and successful British artist, designer and illustrator. He was born in Purley, Surrey and studied at St. Albans School of Art from 1945 to 1948. He then served with the Air Ministry Design Service, during which time he attended Regent Street Polytechnic in London from 1949-51, before completing his studies at the London College of Printing. His tutors included Henry Trevick, Raymond Sheppard, and Christopher Saunders. From 1953 to 1962 Maddox worked as an art director for advertising agencies in London. He then worked as a freelance artist illustrator and graphic designer. Between 1972 and 1989 Maddox worked extensively for the Post Office and the Royal Mail, and the Isle of Man postal authority. He designed stamps, stamp book covers, first day presentation packs, posters and charts. His stamps typically feature British architecture, rural life and the countryside. He also produced posters for British Rail and painted pictures that were used as carriage panel prints, and illustrated several books. Maddox’s talents were well recognised and respected in the professional art and design communities. He was elected a member of the Society of Industrial Artists & Designers in 1956 and of the Royal Institute in 1959, in 1989 becoming its president. He was a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers and a Fellow of the Society of Architectural Illustrators. Maddox received many awards for his work as an artist and designer, including the Winsor & Newton /RI 150th Anniversary Award in 1981 and the Members’ Award in 1991. He was a Hunting Group Finalist several times and won the Design Council Award in 1973 and the Rowland Hilder Award for the Most Outstanding Landscape in 1990. Maddox excelled at architectural work, reproducing the textures and patterns of buildings, but he is perhaps best known for his topographical art...

Geoffrey Key. English ( b.1941 ). Horse and Rider, 1988. Watercolor & Ink On Paper. Signed & Dated Lower Left. Image size 10 inches x 6.7 inches ( 25.5cm x 17cm ). Frame size 16.1 inches x 12.6 inches ( 41cm x 32cm ). Available for sale; this original painting is by Geoffrey Key and is dated 1988. The painting is presented and supplied in a sympathetic and contrasting contemporary frame (which is shown in these photographs) to suit the subject coloration, mounted using conservation materials and behind glass. The artwork and its presentation is in very good condition. It wants for nothing and is supplied ready to hang and display. The watercolor is signed and dated lower left. Geoffrey Key is a leading figure in Northern contemporary art, widely regarded as Lancashire’s greatest living artist, noted for his realism, his expressive use of bold color and his graphic, linear style. His striking works, now much in demand, have established him as a major player of post war British figurative art. Geoffrey Key was born in Rusholme, Manchester in 1941. His mother, Marion, worked as an illustrator and encouraged him to draw and he took to this easily and with great enthusiasm. He was educated at Manchester's High School of Art, whose headmaster, Ernest Goodman, established the Salford Art Club. It is fitting that many years later, after Goodman's death, its members chose Geoffrey Key as Honorary President. In 1958 Key enrolled at the Manchester Regional College of Art, where he was tutored by the sculptor Ted Roocroft and the painter Harry Rutherford, both of whom influenced him greatly. After gaining the National Diploma of Design and the Diploma of Associateship of Manchester, the latter with distinction, Key took up a postgraduate scholarship in sculpture. His academic awards include the Heywood Medal in Fine Art and the Guthrie Bond Travelling Scholarship. Geoffrey Key’s early work included an important period of development during which he concentrated on painting and drawing a specific area of the Derbyshire landscape, the Whiteley Nab hill, south of Glossop. Key created literally hundreds of images of this one landscape and later revealed that the sole purpose of this dedicated period of study, was to build upon the firm foundation established by his academic training, whilst divesting himself of the influences he had absorbed in order to arrive at his own personal artistic language. In other words, this is where he found his own style. After graduating Key worked as a teacher at Duke Street Secondary Modern in Broughton, Salford, which later became Broughton Modern. In every spare moment though he painted and his talent was quickly recognised. As the likes of Salford Art Gallery, The Rutherston Loan Collection and North West Arts began to acquire his work he made the decision to relinquish his salary and to become a full time artist. Key was elected to membership of the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts in 1968 and was a prize winner in 1971. During this time he was also commissioned by three North West England based companies – Mather & Platt, Richard Johnson & Nephew, and Wilson’s Brewery. The Richard Johnson & Nephew pictures are now held by the Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester. In the 1980s the French company Société des Caves de Roquefort also commissioned Key’s work and further successful exhibitions were held in both the UK and abroad. In 1987 the Manchester Evening News asked Key to write an article on L. S. Lowry, who Key had known well, for a feature marking the centenary of the artist's birth. This article was accompanied by a contemporary drawing of Lowry by Key. Apart from LS Lowry, Key is arguably Lancashire’s best-known and most collected contemporary artist. Key says ‘I knew Lowry and he was a lovely...

John Rattenbury Skeaping. English ( b.1901 - d.1980 ). Guardian, Cowboy And Horseman Of The Camargue, 1970. Pastel On Paper. Signed & Dated Lower Right. Paper size 15.2 inches x 2...

Edwin Lord Weeks. American ( b.1849 - d.1903 ). Egyptian Buffalo And Farmers, Egypt. Watercolor On Paper. Monogram Lower Right. Image size 5.1 inches x 8.3 inches ( 13cm x 21cm ). F...

Charles Napier Hemy. English ( b.1841 – d.1917 ). Making The Run For Home, Cornish Coast, 1915. Oil On Canvas. Monogram & Dated 1915 Lower Right. Image size 19.5 inches x 29.5 inches...

Nancy Bailey. English ( b.1913 - d.2012 ). Ben Nevis From Loch Eil, 1978. Oil On Canvas. Signed Lower Right. Image size 19.3 inches x 39.4 inches ( 49cm x 100cm ). Frame size 24.8 ...

John Trickett. English ( b.1952 ). Black Labrador. Oil On Board. Signed Lower Right. Image size 13.2 inches x 9.3 inches ( 33.5cm x 23.5cm ). Frame size 18.3 inches x 14.6 inches (...

Robert Littleford. English ( b.1940 – d.2023 ). Oldham From The Surrounding Hills, 1984. Watercolor. Signed & Dated Upper Left. Image size 14 inches x 21.3 inches ( 35.5cm x 54cm )...

Frank J. Egginton. British ( b.1908 - d.1990 ). The Maamturk Mountains From Recess, Connemara, Ireland. Watercolor. Signed Lower Left. Image size 20.5 inches x 29.1 inches ( 52cm x 74cm ). Frame size 27.6 inches x 36 inches ( 70cm x 91.5cm ). Available for sale is this original watercolor by the British artist Frank Egginton which dates from the 1970s. The painting is presented and supplied in a sympathetic contemporary frame (which is shown in these photographs), mounted using conservation materials and behind non-reflective Tru Vue UltraVue® UV70 glass. This vintage painting is in very good condition, it wants for nothing and is supplied ready to hang and display. The watercolor is signed lower left. Frank Egginton was a British contemporary landscape artist, synonymous with watercolours of the Irish countryside, particularly county Donegal. He came from an artistic family, with his father being the well-known artist Wycliffe Egginton (1875-1951), and his nephew was the artist Robert Egginton. His daughter and son in law have run The Gallery in Dunfanaghy, Co. Donegal for many years. Frank (officially Francis John) Egginton was born in Wallasey in the county of Cheshire on 10 November 1908. When he was a baby the family moved to Newton Abbott in Devon, as his father had been appointed headmaster of the College of Art there. Frank was educated at Newton College, and then Newton Abbott College of Art, and Exeter School of Art. He then spent some time perfecting his drawing whilst working in an architect’s office. In 1921 the family moved again to Teignmouth in Devon. In 1930 Egginton visited Co. Donegal and painted some pictures for a businessman friend of his father’s. He developed a love of the west Irish...

Lionel Horsnell. English ( b.1932 - d.2011 ). Ringstead Bay & White Nothe, The Jurassic Coast, Dorset. Watercolor On Buff Paper. Signed Lower Right. Ima...

William Mellor. English ( b.1851 - d.1931 ). Waterfall On The River Llugwy Near Betws-y-Coed, Wales. Watercolor. Signed Lower Right. Image size 18.5 inches x 16 inches ( 47cm x 40....

William Mellor. English ( b.1851 - d.1931 ). Waterfall And Stone Bridge On The River Llugwy, Near Capel Curig, Wales. Watercolor. Signed Lower Right. Image size 18.3 inches x 16 in...

Paul Delvaux. Belgian ( b.1897 - d.1994 ). La Belle Anna, La Port De Cannes, 1930. Watercolor, Bodycolor & Pastel On Woven Paper. Signed & Dated 1930 Lower Left. Image size 15.7 inc...

Dame Elisabeth Frink. English ( b.1930 - d.1993 ). Hawk, 1969. Watercolor. Signed & Dated Lower Right. Image size 25.4 inches x 19.5 inches ( 64.5cm x 49.5cm ). Frame size 34.4 inches x 28.1 inches ( 87.5cm x 71.5cm ). Available for sale; this original painting is by Dame Elisabeth Frink and is dated 1969. The painting is presented and supplied in a glazed frame and mount dating from June 1997. This vintage watercolor is in very good condition, commensurate with its age. The watercolor is signed and dated lower right. Previously with Beaux Arts, London and Bath in 1999. Dame Elisabeth Frink was one of Britain’s most important post-war sculptors, an accomplished draughtsman, illustrator and teacher. She was part of the post-war school of expressionist British sculptors dubbed the Geometry of Fear, and enjoyed a highly acclaimed career that was commercially successful, broke boundaries and contributed greatly to bringing wonderful sculpture to public places. She was born on 14 November 1930 in Thurlow, the daughter of a cavalry officer, and brought up in rural Suffolk near to an active airbase. She was brought up a Catholic and educated at the Convent of the Holy Family, Exmouth. She then studied at the Guildford School of Art from 1947-1949 under Willi Soukop and Henry Moore’s assistant, Bernard Meadows, and then at the Chelsea School in London 1949-1953. She taught at Chelsea School of Art 1951-61, St. Martin’s School of Art 1954-62 and was a visiting instructor at the Royal College of Art 1965-1967, after which she lived in France until 1973. Frink first came to the attention of the public in 1951 at an exhibition at the Beaux Arts Gallery, London. In 1952 she represented Britain at the Venice Biennale, being described by Herbert Read as “the most vital, the most brilliant and the most promising of the whole Biennale”. The same year the Tate bought its first work by her, and she began to enjoy commercial success. Thereafter she exhibited regularly and was for 27 years associated with Waddington’s, London. The subjects which Frink was most concerned with were man, dog and horses, with and without riders. Interestingly she seldom sculpted the female form, drawing on archetypes of masculine strength, struggle and aggression. Her work has the recurring themes of the vulnerable and the predatory, in the spirit of an authentic post-war artist. It has been said that she was more concerned with representing mankind that portraits of individuals. The appeal of her work lies in its directness, provoking a frank statement of feeling. The anatomy is often exaggerated or incorrect; the impact growing more out of her interest in the spirit of the subject. Her animals and birds may be drawn from nature but verge on the abstract, conveying raw emotion and character rather than a realistic depiction. Her unique style is characterised by a rough treatment of the surface which embeds each piece with vitality and her personal impression. In her later work even the distinction between human and bird figures becomes blurred. Commentators have noted that the often rugged, brutal and contorted surfaces of her work reflect the destruction and terror of the six-year world-wide conflict that she witnessed as a child. Frink was an active supporter of Amnesty International. In the 1960s and early 1970s Frink produced a notable series of falling figures and winged men. Later, living in France during the Algerian war, she began making heads, blinded by goggles which had a threatening facelessness. Frink produced many notable public commissions, including Wild Boar for Harlow New Town, Blind Beggar and Dog for Bethnal Green, Noble Horse and Rider for Piccadilly, London, a lectern for Coventry Cathedral, Shepherd for Paternoster Square beside St. Paul’s Cathedral and a Walking Madonna for Salisbury Cathedral. In the early 1980s she produced a set of three larger than life figures The Dorset Martyrs which stand on the edge of the old walled town of Dorchester on the site of the old gallows, as a memorial to those who had been executed there ‘for conscience sake’. Frink’s Canterbury Tales was a collection of 19 etchings drawn directly on to copper plates and etched by her. The ‘book’ was issued in three limited editions. Her illustrations have been praised as “amongst the most successful illustrations of the century, encompassing the mood of the text in concise delineations and disarmingly ribald humour”. She illustrated other books with colored lithographs or drawings. Frink was on the Board of Trustees, British Museum from 1976, and was a member of the Royal Fine Art Commission 1976-81. CBR (1969), DBE ((1982), Associate of the Royal Academy (1971), Royal Academy (1977). She was made a Companion of Honour in 1992. She died on 18 April 1993, but not before completing her last commission, a monumental but unusual figure of Christ for the front of the Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool, unveiled a week before her death. For several decades Frink exhibited widely in the UK and abroad. In her later years she lived and worked in Dorset where her home and garden became an arena for her work. In 1985 she had a retrospective at the Royal Academy. She died on 18 April 1993, but not before completing her last commission, a monumental but unusual figure of Christ for the front of the Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool, unveiled a week before her death. There was a memorial show at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bretton Hall in 1994. Today Frink is venerated as one of the great twentieth century British sculptors. Her unique work is represented in the Tate Gallery and major public and private collections world-wide. © Big Sky Fine Art This original watercolor on paper painting of a hawk by Dame Elizabeth Frink...

Nancy Bailey. English ( b.1913 - d.2012 ). Working Boats, Porthleven, Cornwall, 1973. Oil On Canvas. Signed Lower Right. Image size 18.9 inches x 34.8 inches ( 48cm x 88.5cm ). Fram...

A. Lesueur French 19ème siècle Les Mille Et Une Nuits – One Thousand & One Nights, 1892 Charcoal on paper heightened with white. Signed & dated 1892 lower right. Image size 23.6 inc...

Gareth Parry. Welsh ( b.1951 ). Setting Pots. Oil On Canvas. Signed Lower Right. Image size 24 inches x 24 inches ( 61cm x 61cm ). Frame size 30.5 inches x 30.5 inches ( 77.5cm x 7...

Henry Robinson Hall. English ( b.1857 - d.1927 ). Highland Cattle In A Scottish Upland Pasture, 1891. Oil On Canvas. Signed & Dated Lower Left. Image size 23.4 inches x 15.4 inches (...

Elisabeth Bardon. French ( b.1892 - d.1984 ). Ocean Gypsy. Oil On Panel. Signed Lower Left. Image size 18.1 inches x 15 inches ( 46cm x 38cm ). Frame size 23.8 inches x 20.9 inches (...

Raymond Moritz. French ( b.1891 - d.1950 ). A Liberated Lady On The Cliffs, 1927. Oil On Canvas. Signed Lower Left. Image size 25 inches x 20.7 inches ( 63.5cm x 52.5cm ). Frame size 29.3 inches x 24.8 inches ( 74.5cm x 63cm ). Available for sale; this original oil painting is by the French artist Raymond Moritz and dates from 1927. The painting is presented and supplied in a sympathetic contemporary frame (which is shown in these photographs), mounted with new fixtures. The canvas and the painted surface have benefitted from cleaning and conservation, which was performed on our instruction, supervision and approval. This vintage painting is now in very good condition. It wants for nothing and is supplied ready to hang and display. The painting is signed lower left. A later dedication to “Louise” dated April 1942 in the artist’s hand is set around the earlier signing. Raymond Moritz was a French impressionist artist and illustrator. He was born in Paris on 8 July 1891. His family came from the Alsace region and were poor and Catholic. On his mother’s side, the Staubs were from Wihr-au-Val where they had been coopers for several generations. His uncle, Marie Clement Staub, was the founder in Canada of the Sisters of Saint Joan of Arc. Moritz fought during the Great War in the Picardy region of the Somme with the 2nd machine gunner company. He won the French 1914-1918 War medal with bronze palm attachment, which signifies that the awardee was mentioned in dispatches at army level. Moritz obviously created some art during the war because during the inauguration of the new town hall in the town of Albert he was congratulated by the French President, Albert Lebrun, and the British press for the paintings he had produced. Albert was the main town behind the lines for the Allies on the Somme battle fields...

Joseph Edward Hennah. Welsh ( b.1896 - d.1963 ). St Catherine’s Chapel, The Fleet, Chesil Beach & Portland From Abbotsbury Hill. Dorset. Oil On Canvas. Signed Lower Right. Image size...

Gordon King. English ( b.1939 ). Fond Memories. Watercolor. Signed Lower Right. Image size 13.6 inches x 21 inches ( 34.5cm x 53.5cm ). Frame size 22.4 inches x 29.9 inches ( 57cm ...

Robert Jones. English ( b.1943 ). The North Cliffs, Cornwall. 1995. Oil On Board. Signed & Dated Lower Right. Image size 20.7 inches x 27.4 inches ( 52.5cm x 69.5cm ). Frame size 3...

Henry Robinson Hall. English ( b.1857 - d.1927 ). Highland Cattle In The Margins Of A Scottish Loch. Oil On Canvas. Signed Lower Left. Image size 23.4 inches x 15.4 inches ( 59.5cm x...

Edwin Harris. English ( b.1855 - d.1906 ). With Springtime Being Just Around The Corner. Watercolor. Signed Lower Right. Image size 9.8 inches x 4.9 inches ( 25cm x 12.5cm ). Frame ...

Available for sale; this original watercolor portrait is by Andrew Read and is dated 2012. The painting is mounted within a glazed frame (which is shown in these photographs). The f...