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Item Ships From: England
Malaga Shadows, Paintings of Spain, Cityscape Painting, Miniature Artwork
By Eleanor Woolley
Located in Deddington, GB
Malaga Shadows is an Original Painting by Eleanor Woolley. Started Plein Air and finished in the Artist's studio this painting is of Malaga's Old City. It is Very early spring, the s...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Transcendent Figure with Raised Hand - original contemporary figurative painting
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
This original painting is a striking example of contemporary e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"AMAZONS", circa 1937 by Isobel Françoise Rodmell (1899–1972)
Located in Blackwater, GB
"AMAZONS", circa 1937
by Isobel Françoise Rodmell (1899–1972) French
Huge 1930's Cubist Surrealist scene titled "Amazons" oil on canvas by Isobel Francoise Rodmell. Large exhibitio...
Category
Early 20th Century England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century White Chateau Riverside Estate with Boaters Signed French Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Riverside Chateau
Signed by artist, French circa 1855
Oil painting on canvas, unframed
Canvas: 10.5 x 16 inches
Condition: The painting is in very good condition, with well-preserve...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th Century French Oil Painting Old Chateau Castles on Lake Side Town
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Old Chateau
French School, 19th century
signed with initials
oil painting on canvas, framed
framed: 14 x 18 inches
canvas: 11 x 15 inches
Provenance: private collection, England
...
Category
19th Century French School England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century French Oil Painting Nude Lady on Bed Reading, signed & framed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Lady in Interior Scene
French School, mid 20th century
signed oil on board , framed
framed: 14.5 x 20 inches
board: 12 x 17.5 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Eleanor Woolley, Winter Shadows 13, Original Landscape Painting, Affordable Art
By Eleanor Woolley
Located in Deddington, GB
Eleanor Woolley
Winter Shadows 13
Original Landscape Painting
Oil Paint on Canvas
Board Size: H 15cm x W 15cm x D 4cm
Sold Unframed
Ready to Hang
Please note that insitu images are p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid 20th Century French Modernist Portrait of a Young Lady Green & Yellow Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Lady
French Modernist artist, mid 20th century
S.Ascher
signed oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 16 x 13 inches
provenance: private collection, Paris
condition: very good...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique 19th Century Dutch Interior Scene with Couple Seated Oil on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Couple within Interior
Dutch artist, late 19th century
oil on canvas unframed
canvas: 16 x 13 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: good and sound condition
Category
Late 19th Century Dutch School England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1940's French Impressionist Oil Portrait of Young Blonde Haired Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Blonde Lady
by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below
provenance stamp to the back
oil painting on board, unframed
measures: 18 high by 15 inches wide
condit...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine 18th Century English Portrait of Aristocratic Gentleman Huge Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of an Aristocratic English Gentleman
circle of Thomas Hudson (British (1701-1779)
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 53.5 x 45 inches
painting: 45 x 40 inches
provenance: private...
Category
18th Century Old Masters England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Cornish Fisherman Antique English Signed Oil Painting Portrait of Sea Man
By David W. Haddon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
One of the Crew
by David W. Haddon (British early 20th century)
signed oil on board , framed
framed: 18 x 14 inches
board: 15 x 12 inches
provenance: private collection, England
cond...
Category
Early 20th Century English School England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Fishermen
Located in London, GB
'The Fishermen', oil on canvas, by Anna Costa (circa 1970s). Cassis is a small, Provencal fishing village in southern France, located about 45 minutes east of Marseille and 45 minute...
Category
1970s Modern England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique 19th century Scottish Oil Painting Castle on Hill overlooking River
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Castle on the Hill
Scottish artist, early 19th century
oil on canvas, framed
unsigned
framed: 21 x 27 inches
canvas: 18 x 24 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: ...
Category
Early 19th Century Victorian England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Dutch Fishing Boats in a Swell Seascape with Sailing Ships in Rough Waters
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Jean Laurent, French 20th century marine artist
signed oil on board, framed
Framed: 13.5 x 21.5 inches
Board: 8 x 16 inches
Provenance: private collection, UK
Condition: very good co...
Category
20th Century Dutch School England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Le Quai de Tournelle - Impressionist Cityscape Gouache by Eugene Galien-Laloue
By Eugene Galien-Laloue
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed impressionist gouache on paper figures in landscape circa 1910 by French painter Eugene Galien-Laloue. The piece depicts a street scene at the Quai de la Tournelle...
Category
1910s Impressionist England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Shepherds at Sunrise Large 1970's French Post-Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Shepherds at Sunrise
French School, 1976
oil on canvas, unframed
Canvas : 24 x 18 inches
Inscribed verso
Provenance: private collection, Paris
Condition: very good condition
Descrip...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
War Horse Lest We Forget Great War WW1 Remembrance Painting Soldier & His Horse
By Elin Sian Blake
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Elin Siân Blake.
Welsh ( b.1981).
War Horse. Lest We Forget.
Oil On Artist’s Canvas Board.
Signed Lower Left.
Image size 23.4 inches x 19.5 inches ( 59.5cm x 49.5cm ).
Frame size 28...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century winter landscape oil painting of figures on a frozen lake
By Alexis De Leeuw
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Alexis De Leeuw
Belgian, (1822-1900)
A Winter’s Day
Oil on panel, signed
Image size: 10.25 inches x 14.25 inches
Size including frame: 18 inches x 22 inches
Provenance: Cooling Gall...
Category
19th Century Victorian England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Watercolour of Boats and Lighthouse
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Watercolour of Boats and Lighthouse
by Anne Marie Migette Perard (French 1902-1977)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Watercolor on unframed paper
Size: ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Acrylic
1960’s French Pair Portraits Fashion Ladies Original Paintings
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French School, 1960’s
signed pair oil on board, framed
framed: 5 x 4 inches
board: 4 x 3 inches
private collection, France
overall very good and sound condition
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Harbour Scene with Boats and Lighthouse
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Harbour Scene with Boats and Lighthouse
by Anne Marie Migette Perard (French 1902-1977)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Acrylic on unframed paper
Size:...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
French Monochrome Harbour Scene with Boats and Medieval Tower
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Monochrome Harbour Scene with Boats and Medieval Tower
by Fanche Lel
Signed: Yes
Size: 8.25 inches (height) x 11 inches (width)
Watercolor painting on paper, unframed
C...
Category
20th Century Impressionist England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
1970's British Oil Painting Portrait of Lady in White Collar
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Lady
by Geza Somerset-Paddon (British 20th century)
inscribed and dated verso (1978)
oil painting on board, unframed
board: 18 x 14 inches
inscribed verso
condition: ov...
Category
20th Century Impressionist England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Windy Shoreline French Coastal Scene with Cliffs & Green Rolling Waves Normandy
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Haudricourt" (Normandy)
by Guy Pichon (French 1933-2007)
oil on canvas, unframed
inscribed verso
signed and dated 91'
canvas: 21.5 x 29 inches
provenance: private collection of thi...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Le Bal de Moulin Rouge - Modernist Figurative Oil by Marcel Francois Leprin
By Marcel François Leprin
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed, titled and dated 1921 figures in interior oil on canvas by Modernist painter Marcel Francois Leprin. This wonderful piece depicts a ball at the Moulin Rouge, a cabaret in Par...
Category
1920s Modern England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
CLAUDE LAGOUCHE (1943-2020) 1970'S LARGE SURREALIST OIL - FIGURES & BIRD
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: by Claude Lagouche (French 1943-2020), see provenance details below.
Claude Lagouche was born January 2, 1943 in Naves, died January 16, 2020. He quickly gained rec...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Large Classical Oil Painting Figures Animals in Arcadiane Landscape, framed
By Continental School
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Classical Landscape
Continental School, late 20th century
signed oil on canvas, framed
framed: 34 x 43 inches
canvas: 27 x 34 inches
provenance: fr...
Category
20th Century Old Masters England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Port of Saint-Malo', French Modern School
Located in London, GB
'Port of Saint-Malo', oil on canvas affixed to board, French Modern School (1984). Although the artist dated this painting '84, it depicts a nostalgic view of the port of Saint-Malo in Western France's, Brittany in 1884 judging by the clothing worn by the characters depicted. The crowd on the shoreline is watching a sailboat regatta starting just inside the port's breakwater. A rather rare sunny day in Brittany brought out the parasols of the sitting ladies on the edge of the old ramparts. The walled city...
Category
1980s Modern England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
The Golden Egg - Early 19th Century Oil Painting of the Lovers from Mother Goose
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘The Golden Egg’ by Richard Morton Paye F.S.A. (1750-1820).
The painting – which depicts the moment the young lovers in Thomas Dibdin’s Georgian pantomime discover the solid gold eg...
Category
Early 19th Century English School England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1930's French Oil Portrait of Seated Lady in Interior Scene Working Sketch Study
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Lady
by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below
provenance stamp to the back
oil painting on board, unframed
measures: 9.75 high by 6 inches wide
condition: o...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Impressionist Oil Painting of La Vieille Ferme, Vendée, with Row Boat
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of La Vieille Ferme, Vendée, with Row Boat
By Fanch Lel (French b. 1930)
Size: 8.5 x 10.5 inches (height x width)
Signed: Yes
Oil painting on...
Category
20th Century Impressionist England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Male Wacky Artist Portrait Swirly Moustache French Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Expressionist Portrait
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
watercolour on artist paper, unframed
painting : 19.5 x 15.5 inches
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
New York City NYC Street Sunshine Landscape Painting by British Cityscape Artist
By Angela Wakefield
Located in Preston, GB
New York Sunshine Golden Glow Cityscape Painting by British Urban Landscape Artist Angela Wakefield. This original is part of the New York Series, a ...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
20th Century Oil - Docks By Night
Located in Corsham, GB
A serene moonlit dockland with figures gathered at the lower right. A fire flickers on the shore adding as flash of colour to the overall blue composition. The painting is unsigned a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Edouard-Jacques Dufeu (1836-1900) - 19th Century Oil, The Ceremony
By Edouard-Jacques Dufeu
Located in Corsham, GB
A warm, dynamic scene depicting a religious ceremony taking place inside a large place of worship. Signed to the lower left. Artist name also inscribed to stretchers verso. On canvas.
Category
19th Century England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Expressionist Gouache of Arched Bridge and Village Church
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Expressionist Gouache of Arched Bridge and Village Church
by Fanche Lel
Size: 8.75 inches (height) x 11.5 inches (width)
Gouache painting on paper, unframed
Condition: ...
Category
20th Century Impressionist England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
French Impressionist Oil Painting of SAR Ship at Sea
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of SAR Ship at Sea
By Fanch Lel (French b. 1930)
Size: 4.75 x 7.25 inches (height x width)
Signed: Yes
Oil painting on cardboard, unframed
Co...
Category
20th Century Impressionist England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dawn Seascape Painting with Pink Sky and Waves by 20th Century British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Dawn Seascape Painting with Pink Sky and Waves by 20th Century British Artist, Norman Scott
Art measures 16 x 12 inches
Frame measures 18 x 14 inches
Vintage Original Oil on Boar...
Category
1980s English School England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
19th-Century French Oil Painting Country Road with Horse-Drawn Cart & Figure
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Horse & Cart
French School, late 19th century
circle of Camille Pissarro (French 1830-1903)
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 18 x 24.5 inches
canvas : 12.5 x 20 inches
Provenance: p...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's French Portrait Hunched Old Man Caricature
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Character Portrait
French school, Mid 20th Century
Gouache paint on unframed paper
Image : 11 x 10 inches
Superbly decorative 1960's French portrait painting. Ideal for man...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Scottish Highlands Antique Oil Painting Figure by Cottage Loch Landscape
By Francis E. Jamieson
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Crofter Cottahes
by F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950)
signed, lower corner with pseudonym "W. Richards"
titled verso to canvas
oil painting on canvas, unframed
framed: 23 x 30 inches
canvas: 16 x 24 inches
Fine quality antique oil painting by the much admired and celebrated British artist F. E. Jamieson (1895-1950). The painting is signed by Jamieson to the lower right corner with his favoured pseudonym, "W. Richards".
F. E. Jamieson (1895-1950)
We are extremely fortunate to have been handling the works of the enigmatic British artist, F. E. Jamieson since the year we began art dealing, 1989.
Over this time, coupled with our love of the Scottish landscape, we have bought and sold many hundreds of his paintings, in all their various guises and subjects and are considered by many to be a leading authority on the artist and his work. We are also in the early stages of publishing the Catalogue Raisonne for this artist, of which this painting will be featured.
Mr. Jamieson was largely a painter of Scottish landscapes and loch scenes. Born in 1895, Jamieson lived on the south coast of England and was contracted to a large department store to supply them with his paintings. He was an ambitious man and keen to sell more works than through just one shop. In order to do this, he started to sign his works with pseudonyms other than his own name, in order that he could sell his work to a wider audience. It worked and it is considered that Jamieson at least 15 different pseudonym names on his paintings.
In addition to selling through furniture shops, Jamieson would travel door to door offering his paintings to housewives and private buyers. In our years of researching the artist, we heard one story related to us by an old customer who remembers that Jamieson started selling door...
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large scale genre oil painting of a family in a cottage interior
By Haynes King
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Haynes King
British, (1831-1904)
Family Life
Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1869
Image size: 27.25 inches x 35 inches
Size including frame: 41 inches x 48.75 inches
Provenance: Edwar...
Category
19th Century Victorian England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Cornish/ Devon Fishing Cottages & Family Coastal Landscape Oil
By Victorian School
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Fisherfolk
English School, 19th centurysigned oil on canvas, framed
framed: 17 x 23 inches
painting: 12 x 18 inches
provenance: private collection, England
condition: very good ...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
20th Century French Modernist Portrait of a Woman in Wide-Brimmed Hat
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Chic Lady
French School, 20th century
oil on canvas, unframed
Canvas : 21.75 x 18 inches
Inscribed verso
Provenance: private collection, France
Condition: very good con...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1930's French Post Impressionist Oil Painting Lady Gleaning in Harvest Fields
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Suzanne Crochet (French c. 1930) French Impressionist artist
Title: the Gleaner
Medium: oil on board, unframed
board: 9.5 x 13 inches
Provenance: private collecti...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Women and Children, 2000 - Oil Painting of Colourful Figures on Two Boards
By Fred Yates
Located in Kingsclere, GB
"It is the man in the street that I'm after, whom I feel closest to, with whom I want to make friends and enter into confidence and connivance, and he is the one I want to please and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
17th Century Classical Oil Painting - Diana With Her Attendants in a Grotto
By Abraham van Cuylenborch
Located in London, GB
Abraham van CUYLENBROCH (1620-1658)
Diana With Her Attendants in a Grotto
1651
signed
oil on panel
12.2 in x 15.7 inches, inc. frame;
31 x 40 cm
Provenance:
Sale of Sotheby's Lo...
Category
17th Century Old Masters England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Everything and Always
By John Paul Jones
Located in Nottingham, GB
Incredible modern art, created from combining laser kinetics with sound to create powerful patterns.
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
"Growing Towards The Light". Large Contemporary Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Beautiful shades of warm colour and sinuous shapes characterise this piece from Francesca Owen. With a faultless hand she portrays the life inherent in living organisms and conjures...
Category
2010s Impressionist England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST SIGNED WATERCOLOUR - FIGURES ON BRIGHT BEACH
By Maurice Mazeilie
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Figures On The Beach"
by Maurice Mazeilie (French)
watercolour painting on paper, unframed
double sided
painting: 5 x 8 inches
A delightful original oil painting by the 20th centu...
Category
20th Century Impressionist England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Flora, Of All Flowers. Contemporary Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
This painting is a gently glowing Expressionist still life. The shades Francesca Owen has used are naturalistic and warm. Now more than ever there's a p...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Explorers Meeting Classical Sea Faring Adventurers with Ship & Charts, oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Continental school, 20th century
Title: The Explorers
Medium: oil painting on canvas, framed
Size:
framed: 29.25 x 41.25 inches
canvas: 24 x 36 inches
Provenance...
Category
20th Century Victorian England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Impressionist Oil Painting of a Coastal Lighthouse
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of a Coastal Lighthouse
By Fanch Lel (French b. 1930)
Size: 7.5 x 9.5 inches (height x width)
Oil painting on board, unframed
Condition: The ...
Category
20th Century Impressionist England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Walk in the Forest - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Gustave Cariot
By Gustave Camille Gaston Cariot
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated oil on board figures in landscape by French post impressionist painter Gustave Cariot. The piece is set in Wiesbaden, Germany depicts a breathtaking view of the Rive...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Pan God Of Nature Playing Panpipes Mythological Nude With Animals Oil Painting
By Margaret Maitland Howard
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Margaret Maitland Howard.
English ( b.1898 - d.1983 ).
Pan, God Of Nature, Playing Panpipes.
Oil On Canvas.
Signed Lower Left.
Image size 22.6 inches x 18.1 inches ( 57.5cm x 46cm ).
Frame size 26.8 inches x 22.2 inches ( 68cm x 56.5cm ).
Available for sale; this original oil painting is by the English artist Margaret Maitland Howard and dates from the 1930s.
The painting is presented and supplied in a sympathetic contemporary frame (which is shown in these photographs), mounted with new fixtures.
The canvas has been lined and mounted on a newly constructed custom made stretcher. The painted surface has benefitted from cleaning and conservation, all of 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.
Margaret Maitland Howard was an accomplished and versatile English artist whose works spanned the early to mid-20th century. Known for her evocative and often mythologically inspired oil paintings, Howard’s work reflects a deep engagement with classical themes and her knowledge of nature, and the human form. She was also proficient working in watercolours and pastels and an accomplished sculptor.
Margaret, who was always known as “Marjorie” was born in Friern, Barnet, London on 31 July 1898, the daughter of artist and civil servant Henry James Howard. She grew up at Sutton, Surrey, where she spent most of her life. She spent many years living and working from St. Katherine’s, Malgrave Road, Sutton, Surrey.
She was educated privately, at the Byam Shaw and then attended the Vicat Cole School of Art, completing her studies at the Royal Academy Schools, where she won five silver medals and other awards. She was also the recipient of a British Institute scholarship and extension and won the 1926 prize for her portrait work at the National Welsh Eisteddfod in Swansea.
She exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy, showing at least ten works of classical and biblical themes at Summer Exhibitions between 1923 and 1935. She was one of the early group of women who painted nudes, a practice which was considered somewhat risqué and vulgar in the early twentieth century. She also exhibited at other leading galleries and in the provinces and consistently pursued her art despite the challenges posed by the societal norms of the time.
Howard had a significant professional career for a woman of her generation. Just after World War II she was appointed draughtsman to the Institute of Archaeology at London University where she worked from 1948 to 1960. This is now part of University College, London. Here, she worked as an illustrator and sculptor, creating models for Professor Frederick Zeuner to use in his lectures. She also illustrated one of his important books (Zeuner, F.E. Dating the Past, London: Methuen). She also created the bust of Gordon Childe, now in the Institute’s Library. After her retirement from the Institute of Archaeology she collaborated with Ian Wolfran Cornwall on his series of books about the prehistoric world.
In 1956, whilst working for the British Institute for the Study of Iraq, she moved to Balawat and supervised the archaeological work at the site of an ancient Assyrian city in northern Mesopotamia. She subsequently prepared drawings of the Balawat Gates, which was significant and technical work.
In addition to illustrating various books on ancient history and anthropology, Howard was also known as an illustrator of fictional books, producing an illustrated edition of the Fables of Aesop that was published by John Lane at The Bodley Head in 1926. She also illustrated Elizabeth Ward...
Category
Mid-20th Century Romantic England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Man in Hat Seated on Ground Stylish 1920's French Impressionist Oil Painting
By Maurice Georges Poncelet
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of Man
by Maurice Georges Poncelet (French, 1897-1978)
oil painting on board, signed initials - datedf 1929
11 x 14 inches
condition: overall good and sound though a little ...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1950's French Cubist/ Modernist Oil Painting One of the Stations of the Cross
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
One of the Stations of the Cross
by Jean La Forgue (French 1901-1975) *see notes below
oil painting on canvas, housed in original metal frame
overall dimensions: 17 x 17 inches
prov...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist England - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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