• John Cromby (20th century)

    Berean

      Oil on board 38 x 49 cm Signed lower right. The Berean emerges from the horizon between a choppy sea and blue sky studded with clouds. The Berean was built by William Pile of Sunderland for Thomas B Walker of London in 1869, and was one of the fastest ships on the London-Tasmania run. The Berean was inward-bound from Langesund, Norway, with a cargo of ice, when she was struck by a foreign steamship and foundered on the 8th April 1910. In Cromby's painting, a grey-green headland emerges from the right of the picture. Cromby was a Liverpool-based artist, renowned for his paintings of Liverpool docks. Condition: excellent. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • John Cromby (20th century)

    A Passenger Ship in Liverpool Harbour

      Oil on board 34 x 59 cm Signed lower right. A liner steers between a bright blue sky and a deep blue sea. Small steamships sail nearby, and seagulls wind their way among the various vessels. In the background, Liverpool's skyline is silhouetted. Cromby was a Liverpool-based artist, renowned for his paintings of Liverpool docks. Condition: excellent. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • John Aldridge RA (1905 - 1983)

    Still Life Painted at El Porche, Deja, Majorca 1932

    Oil on Board 74 x 62 cm Signed ‘John Aldridge’ lower right and titled to reverse. Aldridge read Greats at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and then moved to London in 1928 and taught himself to paint. From 1931 to 1933 he exhibited with the Seven and Five Society at the Leicester Galleries and in 1934 he exhibited at the Venice Biennale. At this time he began his life-long association with the poet Robert Graves and the poets and artists who centred themselves on him in the village of Deia in Majorca. In 1933 he moved to Place House in Great Bardfield with his cats. He became a friend of his neighbour Edward Bawden, and the two collaborated during the 1930s on Bardfield wallpapers, distributed by Cole & Sons. During the War, Aldridge served in the Intelligence Corps, interpreting aerial photographs. Following the war he returned to Great Bardfield and painted scenes of the Essex countryside, and also of Majorca. By this period, his early association with the avant garde of British art had been lost; today, his rural scenes are very popular but arguably lack the complexity of his earlier works, such as this contemplative still life. His art is in major public collections such as the Tate, the British Council, the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Academy and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The Fry Art Gallery in Saffron Walden, which specialises in East Anglian pictures, has a significant holding of his work. Condition: generally very good. Distressed frame with occasional loss, and hardboard substrate bowed.
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    Alfred Wolmark (1877-1961)

    Peace Paraded by Conflict

    Oil on panel
    60 x 34cm
    Signed lower left; original frame. An allegorical scene of Peace as a female nude. Alfred Aaron Wolmark was an influential Post-Impressionist painter who studied and exhibited at the Royal Academy Schools and between 1901 and 1936. Wolmark was noted for his use of impasto and for his skills as a colourist. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally excellent; original frame shows a little wear.
  • Leslie Porter (British, 1903-1977) 'Still Life with Pears'

    Oil on board Signed and dated 1950 16 x 21cm Leslie was born in 1903. He trained at art school (Camberwell I recall) and had an interesting and varied career in marketing and advertising, culminating at one of the UK's largest advertising Agencies, LPE, (later Leo Burnett) where he was a board director and creative director until his retirement in the late '60s. During that time and after his retirement he was a frequent traveller to France where he produced a raft of oil paintings, sketches and pastels observing local people and the lives they led. Also many paintings of buildings and the mostly urban environment both abroad and in this country. One of his early jobs was with London Transport where he produced posters and other publicity material, some of which is in the V&A - you can see a couple online with a bit of an online search. His work was displayed at several exhibitions in London and he was awarded prizes for his oil paintings in France. After his retirement he moved to the coast at Folkestone where he continued to paint - subjects and buildings around the town, festivals, people and occasional visits across the Channel to France. He was married but later divorced and lived with his partner Dorothy until his death in Folkestone in 1977. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent. In a hand-finished oak frame.
  • Ken Moroney (British, 1948-) The Fens, Norfolk (c. 1990)

    Oil on canvas board 48 x 58 cm Provenance: Bonhams (2003) Of Anglo-Irish parentage, Moroney was born in South London, and showed early artistic talent. His Irish father, finding it unmanly, encouraged him to box, and whilst a teenager Moroney won a gold medal. However this did not distract him from art, and once his boxing hobby came to an end the paints continued to show his flair. Self-taught, his impressionistic style, with bold use of colour, has found widespread favour and his works now hang in many important collections. Here he captures the many colours often visible in a fenland sky, where the flat landscape makes for huge skies. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent.
  • Robert MacDonald Fraser (1870-1947) 'Landscape with Footbridge'

    Oil on canvas Signed 20" x 24" (50.5 x 61cm) Though of Scottish descent, an Englishman who was born, lived and died in and around Liverpool. He is believed to have become interested in painting during his secondary school years at the Liverpool Institute and Art School (where the principal was the distinguished landscape artist John Finnie), however his early career was in commerce. By the age of thirty he was well established in Liverpool's art circles but it was to be another decade before he took to painting full time. Between 1910 and 1938 he showed approximately fifty paintings at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, also having seven paintings accepted for the Royal Academy's summer exhibitions. He additionally exhibited at the Manchester Art Gallery, Liverpool Bluecoat and Royal Cambrian Academy, becoming - in 1929 - Vice President of the Liverpool 'Artists' Club.' He mostly painted the landscapes of North Wales and the North West of England. His family owned holiday cottages in North Wales, and Snowdonia provided him with much inspiration, it is believed that this painting is of a Snowdonia scene. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent.
  • Lionel Bulmer (1919-1992) 'The Edge of the Field' (c. 1950s)

    Oil on board 43 x 51 cm Signed lower right. Lionel Bulmer (1919-1992) attended Clapham art school before war intervened; after the war he started again at the Royal College of Art which had been relocated during the conflict to Ambleside in the Lake District. Here he met his lifelong partner Margaret Green who provided the model for many of his works. They returned to London where they studied under painters such as Ruskin Spear and Carel Weight, successors to the Camden Town and Euston Road schools. In the 1950s they moved to West Suffolk and much of Bulmer's work from this point on documents the Suffolk landscape and the coast at Aldeburgh and Walberswick. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent.
  • Roy M Whittenbury (fl. 1920-1955) The Pool of London

    Oil on canvasboard 29 x 39.5 cm Whittenbury concentrated on marine subjects. Here he captures the Pool of London - that stretch of the River Thames from London Bridge to just below Tower Bridge which is controlled by the Port of London. Although no longer the busy port depicted in the painting, it is one of the reasons for London's political and economical pre-eminence over the last thousand years. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good.
  • Rowland Suddaby (1912-1972) English Roses - Still Life

    Oil on board 39x29cm (frame 58x46cm) c. 1950s Artist's label to reverse In a fine hand-finished frame Born in Kimberworth, Yorkshire, Suddaby commenced study in 1926 at the Sheffield College of Art on a scholarship, coming to London at nineteen in 1931. Following an early marriage and an initial struggle as an artist his first successful show was at the Wertheim Gallery in London in 1935, followed by a series of shows at the Redfern Gallery from 1936. For the latter he was their replacement for Christopher Wood (who had sadly killed himself in 1930 by jumping under a train) and he painted assured oils and watercolours - some showing Wood influences - in London and Cornwall. Popular with both art critics and the buying public he had great success. Early in World War Two, Suddaby moved - with his family - to the Suffolk countryside near Sudbury to become curator of the Gainsborough's House Museum, East Anglia providing him with the foundations for the pictures for which he is now well known. In 1940 he was chosen for the 'Recording Britain' project. Showing something of the influence of John Nash, his distinctive depiction of the East Anglian countryside, with its hedges and fences is instantly recognisable. His still life paintings which he also painted in the 1940s and 50s were exhibited at the Leger Galleries and at the Colchester Art Society of which he was a founder member. By the 1960s he had evolved his style towards abstraction. He was also a noted designer, producing textiles and furnishings and designing posters for Shell. His work is in many major collections such as the V&A Museum and the Government Art Collection If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good.
  • Angela Stones (1914-1995) Helianthus

    Oil on canvasboard 44x55cm Signed lower left Stones was a member of an artistic dynasty. Her mother Dorothy Bradshaw (1893-1983) studied under Jack Merriott - the artist famous for his British Rail posters, and her son, Christopher Assheton-Stones (1947-1999) was probably the foremost pastel artist of his time. Here a generous use of impasto captures the texture of a Helianthus - Sunflower. A suggestion perhaps of surrealism in choice of colours helps with the mid-century feel of the painting. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good.
  • William Alison Martin (1878-1936) The Menai Straits

    Oil on board 44 x 59 cm Signed lower right. Framed. A beautifully handled scene, with spectacular skies and rich colours in the landscape, showing the soft rolling hills of Anglesea and North Wales (Martin's native part of the country).
  • Peter Collins ARCA (1923-2001) Still Life with Green Apples and Bottle

    Oil on Board 49x59cm Provenance: The Artist's Studio A stongly-painted image, with a generous use of skilfully executed impasto and bright tones. A bowl of green fruit, probably apples, and with perhaps some lemons sits besides a slender and partly-drunk bottle, with an abstract tablecloth in red, white and blue behind. Click here for other items by the artist and for biographical details.
  • Richard Beer (1928-2017)

    Hotel du Commerce, France

    Oil painting 51x60 cm Click here for biography and other works by this artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • Terry Frost (1915-2003)

    'Untitled Landscape'

    Oil on canvas, laid on board 22 x 81.5cm Exhibited London, Coram Gallery, Terry Frost: Works on Paper and Small Paintings, 23 September-29 October 1994 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.
  • Paul Ayshford Methuen, 4th Baron Methuen of Corsham (1886 -1974)

    Corsham Court

    Oil on Board Signed and dated 1957 9x11 inches Corsham Court is home to the Barons Methuen. 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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