Traditional English Painting Chickens at Farm in Thames Ditton Surrey

Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley (British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), signed to the front and inscribed verso Title - "The Old Barn - Manor Farm, Claygate, and Surrey", a vibrant farming scene with figures working and leading a horse away towards fields. Medium: acrylic over pencil, on board, unframed. Painting: 14.5 x 10 inches Provenance: all the paintings we have by this artist have come from a private UK collection of this artists work. Condition: The painting is in overall very good and sound condition. We have measured to exclude the unpainted edges. Artist: Norman Arthur Olley was born in 1908 to a British Army family stationed in Lucknow, Bengal India. His mother died there in 1911, and his father in 1936. Norman married in Gravesend Kent in 1937, and at the beginning of the war in 1939 he was an aircraft sheet metal worker. He and his wife to Surrey in the late 1940s -early 1950s where he was a long term member of the Thames Valley Arts Club and where he regularly exhibited his work. In 1951 his painting "View from Richmond Park" was held in high regard at a very well attended exhibition in Esher, Surrey. The East Molesey area was one of his favorite areas to paint, a 1953 Art...

Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), dated 1992, signed to the front and inscribed verso Title - Scots Pine in a Cornish Farmyard, depicting chicke...

Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), undated, signed to the front and inscribed verso Title - Cornish Haybarn at Treglith Farm near Launceston in C...

Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), undated, signed to the front and inscribed verso Title - Yew Tree Cottage at Wrotham Hill in Kent, England A del...

Artist/ School: Norman A.Olley and inscribed verso Title - Between Two Haystacks - Mannor Farm in Thames Ditton, Surrey Medium: gouache/watercolour/ ink/ pencil on thin board, unfr...

An idyllic scene of chickens feeding in a famryard with old outbuildings and a patch of blue sky beyond. William f Burchell (exhibiting 1909-1937) A farmyard scene Signed Oil on can...

The Farmyard Friends English School, early 1900's signed oil on canvas, framed framed : 13 x 17 inches canvas: 10 x 14 inches Provenance: private collection, England Condition: very...

This charming rural scene depicts a bustling farmyard with chickens and a cockerel pecking the ground and farmer's hay for a grain of corn or tasty insect. Feathers, straw, and cobbl...