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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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
View of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Watercolour on paper 13.5 x 23cm A charming view of Corpus Christi College and assorted denizens of Cambridge. The college is notable as the only one founded by Cambridge townspeople; it was established in 1352 by the Guild of Corpus Christi and the Guild of the Blessed Virgin Mary, making it the sixth-oldest college in Cambridge. With around 250 undergraduates and 200 postgraduates, it also has the second smallest student body of the traditional colleges of the University, after Peterhouse. The College has traditionally been one of the more academically successful colleges in the University of Cambridge. It also ranks among the wealthiest Cambridge colleges in terms of fixed assets, being exceptionally rich in silver. Unsigned; labelled 'Corpus Christi Coll. Cambridge' in ink, lower left. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
John Fulleylove (1845-1908) Trinity College, Cambridge - Great Court
Watercolour 13x17cm 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: Good. -
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. -
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. -
Walter Hoyle (1922 - 2000)
King's College Chapel, Cambridge in red (1965)
Linocut Cambridge Series State Proof, Signed and Titled in pencil. Printed by the artist at Editions Alecto51x69cm Condition: Excellent 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 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. -
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. -
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. -
Walter Hoyle (1922 - 2000)
King's College, Cambridge (Cambridge Series 1956 - 66)
Linocut 56 x 43 cm Signed and inscribed A/P in pencil. Possibly unique. Hoyle's view of King's College, Cambridge, with a slice of blue sky behind. Hoyle trained at Beckenham School of Art and the Royal College of Art. At the latter he was strongly influenced by Edward Bawden, one of Britain’s greatest linocut printers. Bawden had been commissioned by the 1951 Festival of Britain to produce a mural for the South Bank, and chose Hoyle to assist on account of his great talent. Hoyle moved to Great Bardfield in Essex, becoming a part of the Great Bardfield group of artists; diverse in style, they created figurative work, in stark contrast to the abstract art of the St Ives artists at the opposite end of the country. Hoyle taught at St Martin’s School of Art from 1951-60, the Central School of Arts and Crafts from 1960-64, and the Cambridge School of Art from 1964-1985, during which time he launched Cambridge Print Editions. His work is held in the collections of the Tate Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum, The British Museum, Kettle’s Garden and the Fry Art Gallery. Provenance: family of the artist. Condition: generally very good; a few handling marks and a little age toning to the margins. Vertical impressins within and below the blue vertical area which are probably part of the artist's working technique. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of King's College, Cambridge.
