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John Doyle (born 1928)
Trinity College, Oxford
Watercolour 24 x 46 cm Signed lower left. Doyle's striking portrayal of Trinity's architecture, complete with undergraduates variously strolling, sitting, and reading in the foreground. Afternoon sun slants over the immaculately mown lawns. John Doyle was born in London and works in watercolours, pastels, and oils. He studied at the Maidstone School of Art in his 30s, later showing at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Much of his work focuses on landscape and architecture; he has produced a series of views of Oxford and its colleges. Condition: excellent. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more views of Trinity College, Oxford. -
Robert Murdoch Wright (1889-1962)
Magdalen Tower, Magdalen College, Oxford (1910)
Oil on board 35 x 26 cm Signed and dated 1910 Murdoch Wright is best known for his scenes of Egypt, where he travelled and painted widely, see for example this pair sold at Christies. Here he captures Edwardian Oxford with elegantly dressed ladies crossing Magdalen Bridge. Condition: very good; recently cleaned and revarnished. -
George Pyne (1800 - 1884) The High, Oxford
Watercolour 15 x 21 cm Signed and dated indiscriminately lower left. A 19th-century view of the High Street, Oxford. The spire of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin towers over the street; a horse and cart and brightly-dressed pedestrians pass by. 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: generally good; some spotting and toning to sky. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Alfred Daniels RBA RWS (1924-2015) All Souls, Oxford Acrylic on paper In a hand-finished white frame. 22x29.5cm (8.6x11.6 inches) 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 Pyne
Peckwater Quad, Christ Church, Oxford
Watercolour 13x18cm 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 Matthison (1853-1926)
Trinity Front Quad with Exeter College Chapel, Oxford
Watercolour 36.5 x 26cm 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. -
A R Quinton (1853-1934) - Alfred Robert Quinton
New College Bell Tower, Oxford
Signed lower left Watercolour 25x17cm Between 1904 and his death over 2000 of Quinton's paintings were published. Well known for his paintings of landscapes and townscapes of Britain many of his paintings were produced as postcards during the postcard craze of the first decade of the twentieth century; numerous views of Oxford were featured. We have not yet been able to identify a postcard derived from this particular view. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Francis Philip Barraud RA (1834-1901)
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Watercolour 23 x 33cm Signed lower right. Barraud came from a family of painters. William and Henry were brothers, born in 1810 and 1811 respectively, the former a painter of equine subjects and hounds, the latter a landscape painter, and unusually the two of them made a habit of painting joint commissions. Francis, born in 1824, was a noted topographical artist, being well known for his views of Oxford in particular. Here he handles the old stonework of the College very capably, impressionistic flowers enhancing the scene. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
William Matthison
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
Watercolour 26 x 34 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. -
Sir Edward Brantwood Maufe KBE RA FRIBA (1882-1974)
Heraldic Design for a carpet for the Senior Common Room, St John’s College Oxford
Watercolour and ink Signed and inscribed Provenance: The estate of Bernard Bumpus If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. 37x46cm (14.5×18.1 inches) Maufe designed buildings for his old Oxford College, St John’s, over an extended period, starting with two memorial slabs in 1923, and was made honorary fellow in 1943. His most major works were the Rawlinson Building extension (1933) and Dolphin Quad (1947). This design relates to the 1936 remodelling of the smoking room of the Senior Common Room. Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. -
F F Hoyland Balliol College, Oxford (1880) Watercolour 44 x 66 cm Signed lower left and dated. An impressive watercolour of Balliol College. Scholars, sporting gowns and mortarboards, gather in the quad. Hoyland's stylistic precision transforms this watercolour into a beautifully executed depiction of the College's architecture. -
William Matthison
Balliol College Oxford
Watercolour 26 x 44 cm Signed lower right 'W Matthison'. 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. -
Sir Hugh Casson CH, KCVO, PRA, RDI (1910-1999) St John’s College, Oxford, Canterbury Quad Signed, inscribed with title and dated ‘1988’ (on a label attached to the backboard) Pencil, pen, ink and watercolour 10.5 x 27cm (4 1/8 x 10 5/8in). Painted for inclusion in Hugh Casson’s Oxford (Phaidon Press Ltd, 1988). 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. -
David Loggan (1634-1692)
Christ Church, Oxford (1675)
Engraving 42 x 84 cm Loggan's view of Christ Church from the 'Oxonia Illustrata'. Loggan was born to English and Scottish parents, and was baptised in Danzig in 1634. After studying engraving in Danzig with Willem Hondius (1598-1652 or 1658), he moved to London in the late 1650s, going on to produce the engraved title-page for the folio 1662 Book of Common Prayer. He married in 1663 and moved to Nuffield in Oxfordshire in 1665. Loggan was appointed Public Sculptor to the nearby University of Oxford in the late 1660s, having been commissioned to produce bird’s-eye views of all the Oxford colleges. He lived in Holywell Street as he did this. The 'Oxonia Illustrata' was published in 1675, with the help of Robert White (1645-1704). Following its completion, Loggan began work on his equivalent work for Cambridge; the 'Cantabrigia Illustrata' was finally published in 1690, when he was made engraver to Cambridge University. The 'Oxonia Illustrata' also includes an engraving of Winchester College (Winchester and New College share William of Wykeham as their founder) whilst the 'Cantabrigia Illustrata' includes one of Eton College (which shares its founder, Henry VIII, with King’s College). Bird’s-eye views from this era required a particular talent as an architectural perspectivist; it was not until 1783 that it became possible for artists to ascend via hot air balloons and view the scenes they were depicting from above. Loggan thus had to rely on his imagination in conceiving the views. Loggan’s views constitute the first accurate depictions of the two Universities, in many ways unchanged today. Whilst the Oxford engravings were produced in reasonable numbers and ran to a second edition by Henry Overton (on thicker paper and with a plate number in Roman numerals in the bottom right-hand corner), those of Cambridge were printed in much smaller numbers. The Dutchman Pieter van der Aa published some miniature versions of the engravings for James Beverell’s guidebook to the UK, 'Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne' (circa 1708). The contemporary artist Andrew Ingamells (born 1956) has produced a highly-acclaimed series of etchings which bring Loggan’s original vision up to date. Condition: very good; later hand coloured. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Christ Church. -
Fred Taylor (1875 - 1963)
Magdalen Tower from Magdalen Bridge
Watercolour 25 x 37 cm Signed lower left. Fred Taylor captures the indomitable features of Magdalen Tower. The spire rises into a pale sky as undergraduates stream past the entrance to the Porter's Lodge. An old-fashioned car drives up the High.This watercolour of Magdalen was a design for the front cover of a guidebook about Oxford.Fred Taylor was a London-born painter and poster designer. He studied at the Académie Julian in Paris, and Goldsmiths’ in London, later travelling to Italy on a scholarship to study art. He produced many poster designs for railway and shipping firms and was an official camoufleur during the Second World War. He exhibited at the Royal Academy.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 Magdalen College, Oxford. -
David Loggan (1634 - 1692)
Christ Church, Oxford (1675)
Engraving 42 x 84 cm Loggan's view of Christ Church from the 'Oxonia Illustrata'. Loggan was born to English and Scottish parents, and was baptised in Danzig in 1634. After studying engraving in Danzig with Willem Hondius (1598-1652 or 1658), he moved to London in the late 1650s, going on to produce the engraved title-page for the folio 1662 Book of Common Prayer. He married in 1663 and moved to Nuffield in Oxfordshire in 1665. Loggan was appointed Public Sculptor to the nearby University of Oxford in the late 1660s, having been commissioned to produce bird’s-eye views of all the Oxford colleges. He lived in Holywell Street as he did this. The 'Oxonia Illustrata' was published in 1675, with the help of Robert White (1645-1704). Following its completion, Loggan began work on his equivalent work for Cambridge; the 'Cantabrigia Illustrata' was finally published in 1690, when he was made engraver to Cambridge University. The 'Oxonia Illustrata' also includes an engraving of Winchester College (Winchester and New College share William of Wykeham as their founder) whilst the 'Cantabrigia Illustrata' includes one of Eton College (which shares its founder, Henry VIII, with King’s College). Bird’s-eye views from this era required a particular talent as an architectural perspectivist; it was not until 1783 that it became possible for artists to ascend via hot air balloons and view the scenes they were depicting from above. Loggan thus had to rely on his imagination in conceiving the views. Loggan’s views constitute the first accurate depictions of the two Universities, in many ways unchanged today. Whilst the Oxford engravings were produced in reasonable numbers and ran to a second edition by Henry Overton (on thicker paper and with a plate number in Roman numerals in the bottom right-hand corner), those of Cambridge were printed in much smaller numbers. The Dutchman Pieter van der Aa published some miniature versions of the engravings for James Beverell’s guidebook to the UK, 'Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne' (circa 1708). The contemporary artist Andrew Ingamells (born 1956) has produced a highly-acclaimed series of etchings which bring Loggan’s original vision up to date. 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 Christ Church. -
Bryan de Grineau (1883 - 1957)
The Hall, St John’s College, Oxford
Pencil 34 x 56 cm Signed and titled lower right. Drawing published in The Illustrated London News, 18 June 1955. Condition: very good. Click here for other views of St John’s College by this artist and biographical details. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Walter Charles Ives (d. 1961)
The New Bodleian Building, Oxford 1946
Signed Pencil, wash and whitening 35 x 53 cm (15 x 21 in.) -
William Matthison (1853-1926)
Christ Church Oxford Staircase
Watercolour 38 x 25 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. -
George Pyne (1800-1884) Exeter College, Oxford
Watercolour 22x18.5cm Pyne was the elder son of William Henry Pyne, the publisher artist behind the monumental History of the Royal Residences, and son-in-law of John Varley – two founders of the Society of Painters in Watercolours. Living in Oxford from the 1850s until his death, he brought the hand of an architectural draughtsman to his views of Oxford, the works for which he is best known, but with an artist’s ability to represent the romance of old stone. His views of Cambridge and Eton also contribute to his valuable and historical record of the period. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally excellent condition. -
Hugh Casson (1910 - 1999)
Trinity College, Oxford (1990)
Watercolour 20 x 33 cm (38 x 50 cm framed) Casson's marvellous watercolour of Trinity and its perfectly manicured lawns, adorned with strolling undergraduates. Sir Hugh Casson was educated at Eastbourne College; St John’s College, Cambridge; and the Bartlett School of Architecture. Trained in the 1930s in the early modernist style, he taught at the Cambridge School of Architecture. After employment as a camoufleur during World War 2 by the Air Ministry, in 1948 he was appointed as director of architecture for the Festival of Britain. A close friend of the Royal Family, he undertook designs for the 1953 coronation, designed the interior of the Royal Yacht Britannia (“The overall idea was to give the impression of a country house at sea”), and taught the young Charles III to paint in watercolours. Amongst his architectural achievements are the Elephant House at London Zoo, the 1978 redevelopment of Bristol Docks, the Raised Staff Building for The University of Cambridge, and a building for the Royal College of Art. He published a number of illustrated books, of which Casson’s Oxford and Casson’s Cambridge are probably the best known. A limited edition series of prints was produced from the paintings. Condition: excellent. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Trinity College, Oxford. -
Dugald Sutherland MacColl Brasenose College, Oxford
Pencil and Wash 24x31cm 44x51cm including frame, UK shipping only MacColl was Keeper of the Tate 1906-1911, and from 1911-1924 of the Wallace Collection. A more worked-up version of this painting appears in the Tate collection and may be seen on their website. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. Paper lightly ripped, slight discolouration and some light staining to margins. -
Hugh Casson (1910 - 1999)
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Watercolour 11 x 21 cm A beautiful original water of Corpus. Casson juxtaposes the sparely painted figures of undergraduates and academics with the majesty of the pale stone used to build much of the college. This watercolour was used in Casson's book "Hugh Casson's Cambridge." Sir Hugh Casson was educated at Eastbourne College; St John’s College, Cambridge; and the Bartlett School of Architecture. Trained in the 1930s in the early modernist style, he taught at the Cambridge School of Architecture. After employment as a camoufleur during World War 2 by the Air Ministry, in 1948 he was appointed as director of architecture for the Festival of Britain. A close friend of the Royal Family, he undertook designs for the 1953 coronation, designed the interior of the Royal Yacht Britannia (“The overall idea was to give the impression of a country house at sea”), and taught the young Charles III to paint in watercolours. Amongst his architectural achievements are the Elephant House at London Zoo, the 1978 redevelopment of Bristol Docks, the Raised Faculty Building for The University of Cambridge, and a building for the Royal College of Art. He published a number of illustrated books, of which Casson’s Oxford and Casson’s Cambridge are probably the best known. A limited edition series of prints was produced from the paintings. Condition: very good. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Joseph Murray Ince (1806-1859) (attributed)
Balliol College, Oxford
Oil on board 22.5x29cm (9 x 11.5 in.) In a fine hand-finished black and gilt frame. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Brought up in Radnorshire, in Wales, Ince studied under David Cox from 1823-1826, and then exhibited at the Royal Academy. He was a drawing master at Cambridge University during the 1830s, during which period he painted many views of the Colleges of both Oxford and Cambridge, returning to Radnorshire in 1835. His works are in the collections of major galleries including the Tate, The V&A and The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. -
R. Phene-Spiers (1838 – 1916)
Tom Tower, Christ Church, Oxford
Signed and inscribed and dated 1880 Watercolour on paper 37x25cm (14.5×9.8 in.) Spiers was educated as an engineer at King’s College, London. Subsequently he was Master of the Architectural School at the RA, and was President of the Architectural Association from 1867-68. -
William Matthison (1853-1926)
New College, Oxford: Front Quad
Watercolour 35 x 52 cm Signed lower right. A charming watercolour of New College's Front Quad complete with members of the college in academic dress, wandering birds, and a gardener mowing the grass. William of Wykeham, who founded New College in 1379, was an ambitious builder. His vision for the college was of a Chapel, Hall, Library, and rooms for tutors and students to work and live in, all of which would be built around a quadrangle. This was the first time a college had been set in this way, and it became a model for colleges worldwide. Matthison was born near Birmingham and attended King Edward’s School in the city. He learnt 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. Condition: generally very good; a few spots to sky. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of New College, Oxford. -
Bryan de Grineau (1883 - 1957)
Canterbury Quad, St John’s College, Oxford
Pencil 46 x 34 cm Signed and titled lower right. Drawing published in The Illustrated London News, 1955. Click here for other views of St John’s College by this artist and biographical details. 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, Oxford. -
George Pyne (1800-1884)
Merton College, Oxford
Watercolour 18 x 28 cm (7 x 11 in.) Provenance: Agnews -
Bryan de Grineau (1883-1957)
St John’s College, Oxford for The Illustrated London News
Front Quad
Signed and inscribed Pencil Drawing published in The Illustrated London News 18 June 1955 33 x 52 cm (13 x 20.5 in.) Click here for other views of St John’s College by this artist and biographical details. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Richard Bankes Harraden (1778–1862)
St John's College, Oxford
Oil on board 24 x 29 cm Richard Bankes Harraden was a printmaker, painter and drawing master. He was active in Cambridge, producing many views of the colleges, and subsequently several Oxford colleges. Harraden was an early and exhibiting member of the Society of British Artists in London, which was established in 1823, and remained a member until 1849. He specialised in depictions of landscape, topography and architecture, and was the son of Richard Harraden (1756-1838) with whom he published plates as 'Harraden & Son'. Condition: A little craquelure and retouching. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
John Fulleylove (1845-1908) attributed Canterbury Quad, St John's College Oxford
Watercolour over pencil, unsigned 40.5x30.5cm Born in Leicester, John Fulleylove trained as an architect with a Leicester firm before becoming a full-time painter. He exhibited widely in the UK, at such venues as the Royal Academy, the Fine Art Society, and the Royal Society of British Artists. His paintings were the subject of illustrated topographical books, including one on ‘Oxford’ published by the Fine Art Society. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Laid to thick card support; generally very good, two small spots to sky visible in photograph. -
John Piper (1903–1992)
Exeter College, Oxford (1977)
Screenprint Signed in pencil 81.9x61cm (32.2x24 inches) One of Piper's largest and most impressive prints, here featuring Gilbert Scott's chapel at Exeter. It is often claimed that Gilbert Scott based it on Paris's Sainte Chapelle. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: slight even age toning to paper, small area of repair to print. -
George Pyne (1800-1884) Panoramic View of Oxford (1849)
Watercolour 18.5x28cm Pyne was the elder son of William Henry Pyne, the publisher artist behind the monumental History of the Royal Residences, and son-in-law of John Varley – two founders of the Society of Painters in Watercolours. Living in Oxford from the 1850s until his death, he brought the hand of an architectural draughtsman to his views of Oxford, the works for which he is best known, but with an artist’s ability to represent the romance of old stone. His views of Cambridge and Eton also contribute to his valuable and historical record of the period. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Very good. Signed l/right 'G Pyne 1849'. -
Hugh Casson (1910 - 1999)
Oriel College, Oxford
27 x 39 cm Watercolour We are lucky to be able to offer here the original watercolour from which Casson’s print of the College was produced. We also (elsewhere on the site) offer the print from his ever-popular Oxford and Cambridge series. Sir Hugh Casson was educated at Eastbourne College; St John’s College, Cambridge; and the Bartlett School of Architecture. Trained in the 1930s in the early modernist style, he taught at the Cambridge School of Architecture. After employment as a camoufleur during World War 2 by the Air Ministry, in 1948 he was appointed as director of architecture for the Festival of Britain. A close friend of the Royal Family, he undertook designs for the 1953 coronation, designed the interior of the Royal Yacht Britannia (“The overall idea was to give the impression of a country house at sea”), and taught the Prince of Wales to paint in watercolours. Amongst his architectural achievements are the Elephant House at London Zoo, the 1978 redevelopment of Bristol Docks, the Raised Faculty Building for The University of Cambridge, and a building for the Royal College of Art. He published a number of illustrated books, of which Casson’s Oxford and Casson’s Cambridge are probably the best known. A limited edition series of prints was produced from the paintings. Condition: excellent. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
George Pyne (1800 - 1884)
Peckwater Quad, Christ Church, Oxford
Watercolour 27.5 x 17.5 cm Signed and dated 1849. A marvellous view of the Peckwater Quadrangle, more affectionately referred to as Peck Quad and known for having arguably the best undergraduate rooms in all of Oxford. The buildings on the north, east and west sides of the quad were designed by Henry Aldrich are one of the earliest examples of English neo-Palladian architecture. They were built by William Townsend between 1706 and 1711, while the Library on the south side was completed later in the eighteenth century. Peck looks rather different today - it is now mostly filled with lawn and hosts Christ Church's extremely large Christmas tree each year. In Pyne's day it was lawnless and filled with elegant pedestrians in nineteenth-century costume; in this view, afternoon light slants down over the buildings, and the lengthening shadows cast by the library creep into the quad. 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 Christ Church. -
John Piper (1903 - 1992)
Radcliffe Camera
Lithograph 53 x 35.5 cm Numbered 110/1150 lower left and signed lower right in pencil. John Piper's view of the Radcliffe Camera in Radcliffe Square. John Piper CH was an English painter, printmaker, and designer of stained-glass windows. His work often focused on the British landscape, especially churches and monuments, and included tapestry designs, book jackets, screen-prints, photography, fabrics and ceramics. Condition: very good. Attractively framed; frame included for mainland UK shipping only. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Oxford. -
Fred Mayor (British, 1865-1916)
Magdalen College, Oxford
Watercolour and pencil 12x15" In this painting, Mayor catches Magdalen in his usual impressionistic style, with an effective use of splashes of colour and careful use of lighting. Born near Ripon in Yorkshire, Mayor was educated at St Edmund's School Canterbury where he excelled both at drawing and cricket. The former became his profession and he began with a studio in Chiswick shared with Frank Brangwyn. In 1886 he followed the well-trodden path of spending time in Paris, studying at the Academie Julian, and also meeting Wilson Steer and Walter Sickert who influenced his work and were lifelong friends of his. In 1888 at the age of just twenty-one a painting of his was accepted at the Royal Academy of Arts. In 1899 he moved to join the artists' colony in Staithes, Yorkshire, where other artists included Harold and Dame Laura Knight. He met, and subsequently married, another artist - Sheffield-born Hannah Hoyland. Married life began by eloping to Montreuil-sur-Mer in northern France where Mayor developed his characteristic impressionistic style. He died in 1916 whilst undergoing a routine operation for asthma, which was required before he could become a war artist. -
William Logsdail (1859-1944)
Trinity College Gateway, Oxford
Oil on canvas Signed W Logsdail (lower right) 37 x 29.5 cm (14.5 x 11.5 in) Biographical details and other works by Logsdail may be found by clicking here. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Logsdail's skill at painting old stonework is particularly clear here, the crumbling stonework of the gateway has been created through the blending of a large spectrum of colours, creating a very realistic effect. -
William Logsdail (1859-1944)
Cloisters of New College, Oxford
Oil on board 39 x 28 cm Signed lower right. In original Watts-style gilt frame. Logsdail was educated at Lincoln Cathedral School and then Lincoln School of Art. Initially intending to become an architect, he was encouraged to divert his attentions to painting. After winning a Gold Medal in a competition against students of other English art schools, Logsdail continued his painting career at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Antwerp. His promise was recognised by the Royal Household when his 1880 picture The Fish Market was purchased for Osborne House. Logsdail went on to spend the next twenty years in Venice, studying and painting the city's architecture. His 1883 rendering of the Piazza of St Mark's, Venice, was named by the Royal Academy as picture of the year. He also spent time painting the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. In 1912, having moved away from architectural painting and towards portraiture, he was elected to the Society of Portrait Painters. He settled in Oxfordshire in 1922. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of New College, Oxford. -
Charles Paine (1895 - 1967)
Boat Race 1921
Lithograph 102 x 64 cm Signed upper right in plate. Charles Paine's iconic 1921 poster encourages the use of the London Underground in order to view the Boat Race. The slick design features one boat’s stern disappearing from the frame and the other boat’s bow entering it (Cambridge won that year), alongside a strikingly Art Deco typeface. Charles Paine was a versatile and prolific designer, who drew on his training in stained glass to create bold, structured and highly stylised lithographs for a variety of companies. This decorative and brightly-coloured map illustrates the various county regiments of Great Britain, with a border of regimental badges. Condition: backed to linen; excellent, two small areas of repair to margin (invisible); hint of old folds. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other Boat Race pictures.
