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19th, 20th & 21st Century Artists
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Ken
Moroney
Ken Moroney's paintings are in the impressionist tradition. He is largely
self taught and his techniques evolved through close study of the experience
and experiments of earlier artists he admires. Exhibited at the Royal
Academy in London at the Summer Exhibition in 1977 and 1984. He specialises
in small oils studies which are swiftly executed often compared to Sir
Alfred Munnings and Edward Seago. He has had many mixed exhibitions in
London and the provinces, a series of sales and shows including Duncan
Miller Contemporary Arts in 1991. He sometimes uses the pseudonym JJ Bellman
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Ken Moroney Stroll by the River Chiswick oil 9.5 x 12
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James
Longueville PS RBSA 1942 -
James Longueville is an artist in oils, pastel and watercolour. He was
born at Waverton near Chester on 22nd September 1942 the son of Charles
Longueville Wilding-Jones BA. He was educated at Sedbergh School in Cumbria
and later took up a career in journalism. He took up painting professionally
in 1972 and attributes much of understanding of painting from the fine
North Country artist Angus Rand. Longueville was influenced by Boudin,
Constable, Wilson, Steer and Seago, was an admirer of the East Anglian
School and spent many years painting in Norfolk. He was made a member
of the Pastel Society in 1983 and Royal Society of Artists Birmingham
in 1989, he also shows work at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Royal
Institute of Painters in Watercolour and elsewhere. He lives in Cheshire
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James
Longueville PS RBSA
Le Vigan Languedoc oil 15 s 12 inches |
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Dame
Laura Knight RA (1877 - 1970)
Dame
Laura Knight was born at Long Eaton, Nottingham and studied art under
Wilson Foster at Nottingham School of Art, where she meet her husband,
the painter Harold Knight. They painted in Staithes, near Whitby where
there was small colony of artists. Between 1908 and 1918 the lived and
worked in Cornwall. She first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1903 and
at the Leicester Gallery, London in 1906. The Tate, Imperial War Museum
and British Museum hold her work. She was elected RA in 1936 having been
made a Dame in 1929. She was especially fond of drawing scenes from the
circus, ballet and music hall, racing and gypsy life. Her autobiography
is Oil Paint and Grease Paint, was published in 1936 and a retrospective
of her work was held in 1969 at the Upper Grosvenor Galleries
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Dame Laura Knight RA (1877 - 1970)
Dancer Resting edition of 55+12
aquatint 7 x 4.94 inches
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