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Hugh Casson (1910-1999)
Downing College Cambridge (1988)
Limited edition print signed in pencil and numbered 234/500 (N.B. another copy illustrated) 27x38cm From Casson’s ever-popular Cambridge series of prints. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. For biographical details and other works by the artist click here. -
Anonymous King's College Cambridge with the River Cam and Bridge to foreground
51x63.5cm Watercolour Probably 1920s A fine, and large, view of King's College. The artist paints in an art deco style, picking out the stones of the bridge in different colours, the colours all having a heightened sense of reality. Born from cubism, the art deco era is characterised by a fragmented, geometric character particularly evident here. It gives the impression of a shimmering dream. The twenties was an incredible period of change, moving from heavy elaborate styles to a pared back and sleek style expressing more dynamism, an interest in dimension and abstraction. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Piero Sansalvadore (1892-1955)
Chithurst Bridge Surrey
Signed Sansalvadore. Titled to verso. Oil on wood panel 21.5 x 28cm (8.5 x 11 in) Provenance: Stacy-Marks Gallery, Eastbourne, c. late 1940s An Italian who arrived in London around 1930, the Museum of London and City of London have a series of pictures Sansalvadore painted of war-damaged London. Click here for other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
David Loggan (1634-1692)
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Engraving Published 1690 34x45cm For biographical details and other works by the artist please click here. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
David Loggan (1634-1692)
King's College, Cambridge Chapel West Front
Engraving Published 1690 45x35cm For biographical details and other works by the artist please click here. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
David Loggan (1634-1692)
King's College, Cambridge Chapel South Front
Engraving Published 1690 40x55cm For biographical details and other works by the artist please click here. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
David Loggan (1634-1692)
Magdalene College, Cambridge
Engraving Published 1690 39x42cm For biographical details and other works by the artist please click here. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
David Loggan (1634-1692)
St Catharine's College, Cambridge
Engraving Published 1690 35x51cm For biographical details and other works by the artist please click here. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
David Loggan (1634-1692)
Clare College, Cambridge
Engraving Originally published 1690, this is a slightly later edition, by Henry Overton, shortly after 1700. 35x51cm For biographical details and other works by the artist please click here. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Kerry Lee (1903-1988)
'Cambridge' Original Poster Map c. 1965
45x58cm Original Vintage Lithographic poster Published by Pictorial Maps Limited, Kerry Lee's own company The first edition of this map was 1947; this is a later edition showing as it does Fitzwilliam College in its new location on the Huntingdon Road where it moved in 1963, but still referring to it as Fitzwilliam House - it became a college in 1966. Well known as a creator of pictorial maps of British cities from the mid 20th century, he generally draws a self-portrait in the bottom corner by his signature - as here, where he is seen (mustachioed and bearded, and clad in a green tunic) with his ever-faithful dog Jim. Educated at Reading Schools of Arts and Science, the Slade and the Sorbonne in Paris, he subsequently assisted his step-father, an architect named Mr Harvey, as draftsman. Following the Depression Lee set up 'Associated Artists' at Blandford Studios off Baker Street, with a group of other commercial artists. During World War 2 he was based in Hertfordshire creating detailed cut-away drawings of German aircraft, and after the war - still at Blandford Studios - published a series of pictorial maps, both those for British Rail and also his own publications. -
Walter Hoyle
Queens' College Cambridge, Sundial
Linocut, 1965 76x57 cm Signed numbered and titled in pencil. Printed on handmade Japanese Hosho paper by the artist at Editions Electo Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
George Lilly Anderson (British b. 1870)
Trinity College Cambridge Bridge
28x38cm Watercolour Intriguingly nothing is known of Anderson's life, apart from the carefully painted landscapes. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Andrew Ingamells Jesus College, Cambridge
Etching and aquatint 58 x 84 cm Signed in pencil and numbered from the edition of 150. Inspired by David Loggan’s celebrated engraving of the College in 1680, this view of Jesus College was the first of Ingamells’ series of views of Oxford and Cambridge. It took six months to complete and has long-since sold out from the publisher. The Master and Fellows of the College own both the original drawing, which the engraving is based upon, and the copper etching plate used to make the prints. Ingamells trained at St Albans School of Art and the London College of Printing, subsequently working as a graphic designer and illustrator. Based in London, he began making drawings of the buildings and landscapes of London. Ingamells' work is in many public collections including those of the Tate Gallery, The National Trust, The Paul Mellon Centre for British Art, and the City of London Guildhall Library. His pictures are also in several private collections, including those of various Oxford and Cambridge colleges, HRH King Charles III, and Shell Oil. The artist is currently part-way through his epic project to record all the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, a project undertaken in homage to David Loggan. -
John Dean Monroe Harvey (1895-1978)
Garret Hostel Bridge, Cambridge, Trinity Hall and Clare College behind
38x61cm Watercolour and pencil For biographical details and more works by JDM Harvey, please click here. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Edwin La Dell
Queens' College, Cambridge
Lithograph Signed in pencil and numbered 33/50 21x46.5cm A copy of this print is in the Government Art Collection. Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
John Anderson Bell (1809-1865)
King's College Cambridge Chapel Interior
Signed and indistinctly dated Watercolour c. 1840 53x39cm Bell was born in Glasgow; his father was James Bell, advocate and his sister Jane Cross Simpson the hymn-writer and poet. Following Edinburgh University Bell spent 1829 and 1830 in Rome as an art student, returning to the UK to serve his articles as an architect with Rickman & Hutchinson, the gothic revivalist practice in Birmingham. Subsequently he practised in Edinburgh, designing country houses, and the Victoria Buildings in Glasgow for the Conservative politician Archibald Orr Ewing in Scottish baronial style. Thirty of the engravings in John Le Keux's magnificent 1847 book Memorials of Cambridge are from paintings by Bell; this particular painting is believed to have been painted at the same time, although not published. The Great East Window depicted in the painting was created between 1526 and 1531 by Gaylon Hone and three partners (one Flemish and two English) and - together with the other sixteen they made - represent some of the finest stained glass of their period. Here Bell has captured the colours and the light of the window in almost magical fashion. It is an interesting view as it records the chapel in the mid nineteenth century. In 1968 the installation of Rubens' the Adoration of the Magi as an altarpiece involved the lowering of the Sanctuary floor through removal of the steps clearly visible in Bell's view and also removal of the seventeenth century panelling around the walls. It is still felt that the chapel would have been better left 'unimproved' and without the Reubens, though the form recorded by Bell had itself been improved in 1906 when Detmar Blow designed a reredos. Blow's reredos remains in storage in the College. The East window may be viewed in high resolution in the series of seven short films - accompanied by music by King's alumnus Francis Grier - entitled Sword in the Soul. -
Nancy Weir Huntly (1890-1963)
St John's College Bridge of Sighs Cambridge
Oil on canvas; framed. Signed 'Huntly' 50x61cm Born in India, in Nusserabad, she studied art at the Royal Academy Schools in Dusseldorf. She lived in Welwyn Garden City, in Hertfordshire, with her daughter, Faith Sheppard, also a painter. She also painted under the name Nancy Sheppard. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Walter Hoyle
Jesus College Cambridge
Linocut, 1965 76x48 cm Signed and titled in pencil. Printed on handmade Japanese Hosho paper by the artist at Editions Electo Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Florence Camm (1874-1960)
Christ's College Cambridge Crest
Pencil and watercolour 15x11cm Design for TW Camm & Co. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Walter Hoyle (1922 - 2000)
King's College Chapel West End, Cambridge (1965)
Linocut Cambridge Series 51/75, Signed and Titled. Printed by the artist at Editions Alecto71x41cm Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056. -
J V C Anthony
Great Court, Trinity College, Cambridge
Pen, ink and watercolour 37x56cm Latter half of twentieth century If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Effie Colbbelt
Gate of Honour, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Watercolour 32x20cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
King’s College Cambridge from The Backs
Watercolour 24×16.5cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056. -
St. John’s College Chapel Cambridge (1895)
Watercolour 34×24.5cm Click to see King’s College by the same hand. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
King’s College Chapel Cambridge
King’s College Chapel Cambridge (1895) Watercolour 35×24.5cm Click to see St John's College by the same hand. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056. -
William Thomas Martin Hawksworth (1853-1935)
Peterhouse Cambridge
Watercolour, framed. 17.5 x 26cm. Provenance: with Thomas Agnew & Sons, London A Londoner, Hawksworth was a member of both the RI and RBA. The V&A and British Museum both hold examples of his watercolours. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
St John’s College, Cambridge
Watercolour and pencil 13x18cm Probably early 19th century. This watercolour depicts St John's prior to construction of Hutchinson's 1831 New Court buildings; two figures wearing gowns and square caps are engaged in conversation by the Wren Bridge. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Gwen White
Great Court, Trinity College, Cambridge
Gouache 24x32cm Gwen White is author of Perspective: A Guide for Artists, Architects and Designers and this view of Trinity is painted with an architect’s eye for detail. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056. -
Map of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely (1622) engraved by William Hole for Drayton’s Poly Olbion
London (1622) 24 x 31 cm (9 x 12 in) If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
J R Stammers (1918-??) for Sir Albert Richardson
Design for New Buildings at Christ’s College, Cambridge
Inscribed ‘PROPOSED EXTENSIONS TO CHRIST’S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE’, ‘A.E. RICHARDSON E.A.S. HOUFE’ (lower left), ‘PERSPECTIVE BY J.R. STAMMERS’ (lower right) Pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour 63 x 86cm (25 x 34 inches) Provenance: The estate of Albert Richardson. Click here for other works by the artist and biographical details. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
James Sargant Storer (1771–1853)
Trinity College Gateway from The Backs, Cambridge, c1820
Watercolour 19×13.5cm (7.4×5.3 inches) unframed This is the original watercolour for an engraving published as The Avenue by James & Henry Storer c.1820 in Delineations of Trinity College. The exquisitely detailed watercolour showing academical figures standing on Trinity Bridge as viewed from the backs is framed in its original nineteenth century gilt slip behind nineteenth century glass. Provenance: by decent from the artist. Storer was a topographer with an interest in ancient architecture, making drawings and engraving the plates himself. From 1814 he worked in conjunction with his eldest son, Henry, who predeceased him in 1837. They were buried next to each other at St James’s Chapel in Pentonville, now Joseph Grimaldi Park (named after the clown, Grimaldi who was buried there in 1837 and whose railed grave remains to this day). If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Robert Tavener (1920 – 2004) King’s College, Cambridge Signed in pen lower right, titled verso 10 1/2 x 15 Watercolour and ink 27x38cm (10.6×14.9 inches) unframed Renowned print-maker Robert Tavener was born in London. After the war he was educated at the Hornsey College of Art, and became head of print-making at Eastbourne College of Art and Design in 1953. His work is held in over twenty-five public collections, including the Government Art Collection and the V&A. Here, in a rare watercolour, he shows his skill extended well beyond print making. For other works by Robert Tavener and biographical details click here. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
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Richard Henry Wright (1857-1930)
Trinity Great Gate, Cambridge
Watercolour 47x39cm (frame) 25x18cm (9.8×7 inches) Originally from Hampshire, Wright was an artist who specialised in topographical views, mostly in Europe and Egypt. He exhibited at the RA from 1885 to 1913. In 1892 he married the artist Catherine Morris Wood, who also exhibited at the RA – but from 1880 until the 1920s. They lived at 2 Harcourt Buildings in the Inner Temple If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Alexander Wallace Rimington (1854–1918)
King’s College, Cambridge
Signed with initials and dated 1906 Watercolour 33x24cm (12.9×9.4 inches) Alexander Wallace Rimington A.R.E., R.B.A., Hon. F.S.A was Professor of Fine Arts at Queen's College, London. An etcher, illustrator, painter, and author he was most famous for inventing a musical instrument, the 'colour organ' that projected different colours in harmony with music. His first Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy was in 1880, over subsequent years he exhibited thirty-four works there, mostly topographical works related to his travels around Europe. He had regular shows at the Fine Art Society - seven between 1893 and 1912 - showing a hundred or more watercolours. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Sir Albert Edward Richardson K.C.V.O., F.R.I.B.A, F.S.A., P.R.A. (1880-1964)
Cambridge Revisited (1933)
Pen, ink, and wash24 x 35 cmSigned and dated lower right.Renowned for his architectural fantasies, Richardson here depicts Sir Christopher Wren revisiting the chapel he built in 1677. Wren is a Colossus, surveying not only the architecture of the chapel but the fantastical assortment of characters present in the quad. Seventeenth century lords, ladies, and scholars occupy the centre of the picture while 20th century tourists (on the left) watch the scene unfold.Richardson was a leading English architect, teacher and writer about architecture during the first half of the 20th century. He was Professor of Architecture at University College London, a President of the Royal Academy, editor of Architects' Journal, founder of the Georgian Group and the Guild of Surveyors and Master of the Art Workers' Guild. He also received the Architectural Association’s Professor Bannister Fletcher Medal (an award for the study of post- Great Fire London architecture) in 1902. -
John Fulleylove (1845-1908) The Kitchen Bridge, St John’s College, Cambridge Signed lower right “Fulleylove” Watercolour 13 x 19cm (5 x 7 inches) Please click here for the matching watercolour of the Old Library together with biographical details and other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
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John Fulleylove (1845-1908)
The Old Library, St John’s College, Cambridge
Signed lower right “Fulleylove” Watercolour 19x13cm (7×5 inches) Please click here for the matching watercolour of the Kitchen Bridge together with biographical details and other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Piero Sansalvadore (1892-1955)
Queens’ College Cambridge
Signed Sansalvadore. Titled to verso. Oil on wood panel 21.5 x 28cm (8.5 x 11 in) £1850 Provenance: Stacy-Marks Gallery, Eastbourne, c. late 1940s An Italian who arrived in London around 1930, the Museum of London and City of London have a series of pictures Sansalvadore painted of war-damaged London. Click here for other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Paul Ayshford Methuen, 4th Baron Methuen of Corsham (1886 -1974)
Jesus College, Cambridge
Ink and pastel Signed and dated 30 May 1949; in artist’s original oak frame. 41x26cm (16.1×10.2 inches) For biographical details and other works by the artist click here. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Attributed to Richard Bankes Harraden (1778–1862)
First Court, Pembroke College, Cambridge c1830
Watercolour, unsigned 27.5x39cm Pembroke prior to the demolition of the south range of Old Court in 1874 by Alfred Waterhouse. (His plans for the near-complete rebuilding of the College included the demolition of Wren’s chapel, but the Fellows’ caution prevented this.) If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Nancy Weir Huntly (1890-1963)
Trinity College Bridge Cambridge
Oil on canvas; framed in an antique-white-finished frame with gilt slip. Signed 'Huntly' 50x61cm Born in India, in Nusserabad, she studied art at the Royal Academy Schools in Dusseldorf. She lived in Welwyn Garden City, in Hertfordshire, with her daughter, Faith Sheppard, also a painter. She also painted under the name Nancy Sheppard. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Wilfred Gabriel de Glehn RA (1870-1951)
Clare College from the Backs
Watercolour Inscribed “To my friend H Thirkill Master of Clare” Signed “W de Glehn, 1940” 40x50cm De Glehn painted Henry Thirkill in a portrait that is in the collection of Clare College and may be viewed here. Thirkill was Master between 1939 and 1958 and the portrait was commissioned in 1947. A versatile painter, skilled at portraiture, landscapes and figures de Glehn is regarded as one of England’s premier Impressionist painters. His ability to portray lighting in a lively fashion and his vibrant use of colour combine to provide wonderfully rich paintings. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Walter Hoyle (1922-2000)
Senate House, Cambridge (Cambridge Series 1956-6)
Block print 72/75 Artist’s proof, published by Editions Alecto, London, 1966 46x89cm Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Anonymous
Wren Bridge St. John’s College Cambridge
Watercolour and pencil 8.8×16.7cm A charmingly painted watercolour c. last quarter 19th century If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Cyrus Johnson (1848-1925)
Two Dons Engaged in Conversation by Clare College Back Gates, Cambridge
Watercolour 13x22cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Alfred Daniels RBA RWS (1924-2015)
Christ’s College, Cambridge
Gouache, watercolour and ink on board 40x56cm (15.7×22 inches). In a hand-finished cream frame. Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Edwin La Dell ARA (1914-1970) Emmanuel College Cambridge Signed Watercolour
46x32cm (18.11 X 12.6 in)
In fine original hand-finished painted frame.
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Tony Broderick
Shrewsbury Tower St. John's College Cambridge
Conte drawing 35x32cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Tony Broderick
St. John's Great Gate, Cambridge
Conte drawing 33x42cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Francess Richardson
Cambridge Capriccio
Gouache on paper c. 1980 43x53cm Framed in hand-finished black frame A Cambridge-based artist who has accumulated all the best features of Cambridge in this one drawing. Originally from Rochdale, she has lived near Cambridge since the mid 1970s. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Mabel Oliver Rae (1868-1956)
King's College Chapel from the Meadows
Engraving 12x17.5cm Click here for biographical details and other pictures by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056. -
William Matthison (1853-1926)
Trinity College Cambridge Great Gate
Watercolour 36.5 x 26 cm Matthison was born near Birmingham and attended King Edward’s School in the city. He learned drawing at the Birmingham Central School of Art and then became a pupil of Birmingham artist Edward Watson. He became a professional artist in 1875 and moved to Oxfordshire a few years after; this was where he had the opportunity to produce many of the Oxford views for which he is known today. In 1902 he moved to Park Town in Oxford and was commissioned by Robert Peel to paint more than seventy views of the University of Oxford, which were subsequently made into postcards. Priced at seven for a shilling, they were only available from E Cross of Pembroke Street (a long-since closed business). Raphael Tuck & Sons also commissioned him to produce postcard scenes of Cambridge. Matthison’s views of Oxford were later printed in Fifty Watercolour Drawings of Oxford, published in 1912 by Alden & Co. Click here for other works by the artist. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Tony Broderick
Trinity College, Cambridge, Hall from exterior
Conte drawing 37x47cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Philip Pimlott
Gate of Honour, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Etching 17x10.5cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
M. Oliver Rae (1868-1956)
Christ's College, Cambridge
Etching 11x8cm Click here for biographical details and other pictures by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
J V C Anthony (British, 20th Century)
St. John's College, Cambridge
Watercolour 55 x 37 cm (21.5 x 14.5 in.) Anthony exhibited with the Society of Marine Artists and painted a number of views of Cambridge. Click here to see other works by him. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
J V C Anthony
Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge
Watercolour and ink 39x49cm Anthony exhibited with the Society of Marine Artists and painted a number of views of Cambridge. Click here to see other works by him. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
P S Lamborn (1722-1774)
A view of the Public Library, the Senate House and St Mary's Church and the University of Cambridge
Engraving, 1768 40x54cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
E W Trick
Bridge of Sighs, St. John's College, Cambridge
Watercolour 24x18cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Julian Otto Trevelyan, RA (1910 -1988)
Caius College II, Cambridge (1959/1962)
Signed by the artist and numbered 4/70 in pencil. The edition consisted of 70 numbered proofs and 30 artist’s proofs. 37x51cm (14.5×20 inches) This comes from Julian Trevelyan’s Cambridge Suite which consisted of 10 lithographs: Caius College, Caius College II, Christ’s College, Corpus Christi College, Downing College, Emmanuel College, Jesus College, Peterhouse, St Catharine’s College and Sidney Sussex College. The Government Art Collection has copies of several of the prints in this series. Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Julian Otto Trevelyan, RA (1910 -1988)
Peterhouse, Cambridge College (1959/1962)
Proof print aside from the edition of 70. Signed by the artist and numbered in pencil. 38 x 44 cm (15×17 in.) Framed This comes from Julian Trevelyan’s Cambridge Suite which consisted of 10 lithographs: Caius College, Caius College II, Christ’s College, Corpus Christi College, Downing College, Emmanuel College, Jesus College, Peterhouse, St Catharine’s College and Sidney Sussex College. The Government Art Collection has copies of several of the prints in this series. Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
William Logsdail (1859-1944)
St John's College Cambridge, Great Gate
Oil on board 39 x 28 cm Signed lower right. In an original 19th century gilt composition frame. Provenance: the private collection of the late Christopher Wood, a renowned dealer in Victorian art who was a member of St John’s. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Percy Drake Brookshaw (1907-1993) Boat Race
Lithograph in colours, 1937 25 x 30cm (10 x 12.5 inches) Vintage Oxford v Cambridge Boat Race poster from 1937. These small posters were designed to be utilised on buses. Born in Southwark and educated at the Central Schools of Arts and Crafts, Drake Brookshaw was a renowned designer for the Underground Group and London Transport between 1928 and 1958. His wonderful posters evoke a feeling of movement, and probably none more so than this one as the seven visible men strain on their oars. His clever use of colour includes both light blue for Cambridge, and dark blue for Oxford. If you are interested in something similar, or have something similar to sell email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
George Pyne (1800 - 1884)
St John's College, Cambridge Old Chapel
Watercolour 35 x 23 cm A view of the Old Chapel of St John’s College, Cambridge before its demolition. In 1861, the Fellows of St John’s agreed to mark the seven hundredth jubilee of their college by building a new chapel. Sir George Gilbert Scott was appointed to carry out the work, and Dr James Wood (a previous Master of the college) bequeathed the huge sum of £20,000 for the purpose of the new chapel. George Pyne was related to two founders of the Society of Painters in Watercolours – William Henry Pyne was his father, and John Varley his father-in-law. Pyne trained as an architectural draughtsman and lived in Oxford from the 1850s until his death in 1884, specialising in views of the city and its colleges. His Oxford pictures are both architecturally-minded and romantically creative, often combining intensely detailed depictions of college buildings with imagined pedestrian scenes. Pyne was also noted for his views of Cambridge and Eton, and for his drawing manuals ‘A Rudimentary and Practical Treatise on Perspective for Beginners’ (1848) and ‘Practical Rules on Drawing for the Operative Builder, and Young Student in Architecture’ (1854); the latter texts offer an insight into his method of depicting architecture and its surroundings. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of St John's College, Cambridge. -
George Pyne (1800-1884)
Great Court, Trinity College, Cambridge
Signed G Pyne 1850 Watercolour 20.5 x 29 cm (8 x 11.5 in.) It appears Pyne spent some time painting in Cambridge in 1849-50. This is - for Pyne - an unusually large composition; a fine watercolour of Trinity Great Court, with King’s College chapel in the background and elegant figures in the court. It is a particularly pleasing composition. Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
John Fulleylove RI, ROI (1845 - 1908)
Clare College Gates, Cambridge (1890)
Watercolour 11.5 x 17cm Signed lower right. John Fulleylove was an English landscape artist and illustrator. He was apprenticed to a firm of architects in Leicester, and later became a full-time painter in watercolour and oils. He exhibited widely in the UK, at such venues as the Royal Academy, the Fine Art Society, and the Royal Society of British Artists. Abroad, he painted in France, Italy, Greece, and the Middle East; his predilection for travel and his interest in architecture provided him with plenty of subjects for themed exhibitions. He exhibited watercolour views of Oxford in 1888 and of Cambridge in 1890, of Paris and Versailles in 1894, and of the Holy Land in 1902. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Clare.