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Grenville
Cottingham RSMA RBA
(1943 - 2007)
"The
Royal Exchange 1981"
watercolour 14 x 24 ins
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GRENVILLE COTTINGHAM RBA RSMA (1943-2007)
Grenville George Cottingham was a painter in oil
and watercolour, he was born in Exeter on 16th April 1943 and educated
at Exeter School, Exeter College of Art and Liverpool College of
Art. Exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Society of Marine Artists,
The Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Institute of
Painters in Watercolours and had one-man shows at Hallam Gallery,
Bruton Street Gallery and Barnes Gallery. His work is in the collections
of P&O; Marine Society, Royal Fusiliers, RN Reserve (London Division),
Royal Artillery, Woolwich and the London Mutual. He has published
various books. Grenville was a member of the Wapping Group of Artists
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Foley ROI RSMA
(1916 - 2001)
"St
Pauls from Cheapside"
oil 12 x 18 ins
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Sydney Foley ROI RSMA (1916 - 2001)
Sydney Foley was born in Tottenham in 1916 and
was the secretary to his County School art club. He won a "Saturday
Morning Scholarship" to the Hornsey School of Art but decided
not to take it up. After serving in the Royal Artillery between
1939 and 1946 he qualified as a Chartered Secretary as well as
attending night school at Hornsey Art School and working full
time in Sunbury Education Office where he rose to be third in
command by the time he retired. In order to further his art education
after training at night school he did a correspondence course
through Pitman's College (Jack Merriott was the tutor) and the
course included short spells attending workshops with Jack Merriott
in Storrington in Sussex. Sydney and Jack became good friends.
Madge, Sydney's wife, worked as an editor for Hansard and traveled
extensively with her job, it was at her initiative the he went
on a Gallion Painting Holiday with John Seabrook and Edward Swann
with whom he formed a lifelong friendship and through this connection
he attended The Langham and the London Sketch Club, eventually
joining both. He had to paint part time before he retired and
worked as an outdoor painter in oils and watercolour, on marines,
landscape and townscape subjects. Much of his painting is of the
Rivers Thames and Medway and of East Anglia but he has worked
on the continent, especially Venice. Sydney exhibited at the major
London galleries and had many one-man exhibitions. He won several
awards for his work including the Stanley Grimm Prize at the Royal
Institute of Oil Painters. He was a member of the Royal Society
of Oil Painters, the Royal Society of Marine Artists (1983) ,
the United Society of Artists, the London Sketch Club and the
Walton on Thames Art Group (he was their President). He joined
the Wapping Group of Artists in 1979 (after he retired) and was
their President from 1992 to 1997. He lived in Laleham. |
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Sybil
Mullen-Glover RSMA RI RWA 1908 - 1995
"A
Summer Interlude"
watercolour 11 x 18 ins
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Sybil Mullen-Glover RSMA RI RWA
1908 - 1995
Sybil Mullen Glover was born in Cheshire, studied at St. Martin's
School of Art and with private tutors, notably R V Pitchforth. Latterly
she lived and worked in Devonshire. She exhibited in the United
States and Sweden and at the Royal Academy, Royal Scottish Academy
, New English Art Club, Royal Institute of Oil Painters and most
of the leading galleries in this country. She is a gold and silver
medallist of the Paris Salon and Member of the Chelsea Arts Club.
She made history when elected the first woman council member of
the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours. Her work is in
the permanent collection of the Plymouth City Gallery, Brighton
Art Gallery, the National Maritime Museum, the Walsall Art Gallery
and the Sweyne School. Reviewing her last exhibition at the Radlett
Gallery in "Arts Review", Oliver Beckett wrote: "the washes are
carefully controlled… her skies are overcast and the waters calm,
inducing a mood or reverie. There is a sensitive spirit here best
shown in her remarkably atmospheric scenes of castle, port or mountain,
some quite small." In the "Review" Jean Carr wrote: "her watercolours
have a simplicity which is the art of perfection. One is aware of
Sybil Mullen Glover's outstanding and acclaimed professional skill
and one could live in peace and harmony with every single one of
the pictures in this exhibition." She shared shows with Sir Hugh
Casson and Francis Russell Flint and she had a solo exhibition in
Plymouth Art Gallery in 1979 |
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Roland
Batchelor RWS
(1889-1990)
"Carrying
the Catch"
watercolour 6 x 7.5 ins
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Bernard
William Roland Batchelor RWS (1889-1990)
Roland
Batchelor's primary subject was ordinary French life presented with
a warmth and sharpness of vision. The results were as close to Gallic
film comedies as to the work of his two favourite artists, Daumier
and Toulouse-Lautrec. Roland Batchelor was born in Chelsea on 16 October
1889. He drew and painted from an early age, and established his primary
subject from a school trip to France: a relaxed view of life in the
country comparable to French film comedies and work of Daumier and
Lautrec. He entered the Civil Service in 1905, and attended evening
classes given by Punch artist George Morrow at the Putney School of
Art; his comic contributions to the Civil Service Opinion were obviously
influenced by Morrow's teaching. After serving in France and Italy
during the First World War, he studied under Harry Watson at the Regent
Street Polytechnic; at the same time, he discovered a volume on Rembrandt
which helped him to develop hid characteristically lively line. He
learnt etching from William Palmer Robins at the Central School of
Arts and Crafts and made the acquaintance of his most important teacher,
Middleton Todd. Batchelor exhibited watercolours at the RA from 1937,
and watercolour proved to be his essential medium, fitted to his light
subjects (some of which have affinities with the work of Ardizzone).
In 1949, he retired as Chief Executive Officer in the Customs and
Excise Department, and returned, with his son Bernard Batchelor, to
study under Middleton Todd, at the City and Guilds School. Elected
to the Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours (ARWS 1957, RWS
1966), he was the subject of a retrospective at the Bankside Gallery
in 1987. He died on 6th October 1990.
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