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Moira
Gay Huntly ATC PS RI RSMA RWA
"Mevagissey
"
watercolour 18 x 20 ins
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Moira Gay Huntly ATC PS RI RSMA RWA (1932 -
)
Moira Huntly is an artist in acrylic, oil, pastel
and watercolour. She is the President of the Pastel Society. Moira
was born in Motherwell on 7th November 1932, was educated at Wirral
County School for Girls, Harrow Weald County School, studied art
at Harrow School of Art from 1948 to 1953 and Hornsey College of
Art from 1953 to 1954. She exhibited at Young Contemporaries, Royal
Society of Oil Painters, New English Art Club, Royal Institute of
Painters in Watercolour, Pastel Society, Royal West of England Academy
and the Royal Society of Marine Artists as well as in France and
the USA . She married Ian Buchanan Huntly and her work is in many
permanent collections and she has published many books. |
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James Aldridge
(1850 - 1833)
"A
Town Quay Shoreham"
watercolour 14.5
x 21 ins
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Frederick James Aldridge (1850 - 1933)
Frederick Aldridge was a marine painter , somewhat
in the manner of T B Hardy. In 1876 he opened a fine art dealers
"Aldridge" in Warwick Street in Worthing, later in 1905 his sons
established "The Little Gallery" in the shop which was taken over
in 1965 by Frost & Reed. His work is generally rather loose in
drawing and the predominant colours are yellow, green and brown.
He lived in Warwick Street, Worthing and painted scenes of the
Channel Coast. He had a studio beside Nepcote Green in Findon,
in West Sussex .He was a regular visitor to Cowes Week and held
exhibitions in Brighton in 1909 and Dorchester the following year.
He exhibited at the Royal Society of Artists Birmingham, Walker
Art Gallery, Liverpool, New Gallery, and the Royal Academy, Royal
Institute of Painters in Watercolour, Dudley Art Gallery, Manchester
City Art Gallery, Royal Society of British Artists, Royal Hibernian
Academy and at Royal Institute of Oil Painters Examples of his
work can be found in Preston Manor, Brighton, Dudley Art Gallery.
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Jack
Jones
(1922 - 1993)
"Two
Up 1988"
oil 19 x 21 ins
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Jack Jones (1922 - 1993)
Jack Jones was a painter, teacher and writer who
was born poor and illegitimate in Hafod Swansea, South Wales. He
won a place at Dynefor School and went on to teach French and English,
becoming Head of English at Barnes Grammar School, London. He became
interested in Art in Paris in his late twenties and published a
life of Van Gogh: "The Man Who Loved the Sun". Jack began painting
in 1953, soon after returning to England from University in Paris
and continued virtually untaught. His main subjects were the mining
and industrial areas of his childhood. Although he was called "The
Welsh Lowry" Jones denied Lowry's influence terming himself "The
Leonardo of the slag heap" He was not a well man having six operations
for cancer and two coronaries. By the age of 63 he was an alcoholic
in a mental hospital. In 1985 he became a Roman Catholic, gave up
drinking and worked with drug addicts and alcoholics in Chelsea.
His exhibitions include Stephen Bartley Gallery 1988, Taliesin Arts
Centre Swansea 1991 and Glynn Vivian Art Gallery. He lived finally
in Putney in southwest London. |
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John
Hassall RI RMS
(1868 - 1948)
"The
Bargin"
watercolour 10 x 14 ins
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John Hassall RI RMS (1868 - 1948)
John Hassall was born in Walmer in Kent on May
21st 1868 into a naval family. His father was Lieutenant Christopher
Clark Hassall of the Royal Navy. When John was 8 years old his
father died. His step father was an Army man. John was sent to
Newton Abbott College in Devon and later to Neuenheim College
in Heidleberg. Disappointed at being rejected for Sandhurst he
went to Manitoba Canada to farm. During this time he sent back
cartoons and sketches to England, these accepted and published
in the Daily Graphic. He meet Dudley Hardy on returning to England
who advised him to attend the Academie in Antwerp. John contributed
to Jerome K Jerome publication "The Idler" and many others. His
work was exhibited at the Royal Academy. He was a member of the
London Sketch Club, The Savage Club and the Knights Club. This
picture was given in 1911 by Hassall to Steven Baghot de la Bere
(exh 1877-1927) who was a fellow member of the Langham Sketch
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