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Edwin La Dell (1914-1970)
The Radcliffe Camera, Oxford
Lithograph 41 x 54 cm Numbered 2/50, titled, and signed below in pencil. Radcliffe Square in autumn shades. The Radcliffe Camera dominates the lithograph, and La Dell expertly captures the afternoon sun on the golden stone of Brasenose and the University Church. Students cycle towards the High. La Dell studied at the Sheffield School of Art, where he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art. From 1934 to 1940 John Nash was the head of printmaking there, and taught La Dell. La Dell himself became head of lithography there in 1948, and remained in post until his death. During the war La Dell was an official war artist and a camofleur, but he is probably best known for his lithographs of Oxford and Cambridge that he published himself. His works are widely held in the public collections, including the Royal Academy and the Government Art Collection, the latter of which holds many of his views of Cambridge. Condition: generally very good. Fractional age-toning to paper; old glue marks to margin which will be under the mount when framed. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other general views of Oxford. -
Edwin La Dell (1914-1970)
The Meadows, Oxford
Lithograph 40 x 55 cm Signed, titled, and numbered 31/80 in pencil. A bright blue winter sky looks over Christ Church Meadows, complete with pedestrians waltzing down Deadman's Walk. La Dell studied at the Sheffield School of Art, where he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art. From 1934 to 1940 John Nash was the head of printmaking there, and taught La Dell. La Dell himself became head of lithography there in 1948, and remained in post until his death. During the war La Dell was an official war artist and a camofleur, but he is probably best known for his lithographs of Oxford and Cambridge that he published himself. His works are widely held in the public collections, including the Royal Academy and the Government Art Collection, the latter of which holds many of his views of Cambridge. Condition: very good. Backed to linen. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Christ Church. -
Edwin La Dell (1914-1970)
Christ Church, Oxford (1956)
Lithograph 33 x 42 cm Signed and dated lower right. With invoice from Royal Academy and letter from the artist. This view of Christ Church from the meadows is rendered in a muted palette, suggestive of a late autumn afternoon. Four coat-and-hat-clad pedestrians stroll along, accompanied by small child and dog. La Dell studied at the Sheffield School of Art, where he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art. From 1934 to 1940 John Nash was the head of printmaking there, and taught La Dell. La Dell himself became head of lithography there in 1948, and remained in post until his death. During the war La Dell was an official war artist and a camofleur, but he is probably best known for his lithographs of Oxford and Cambridge that he published himself. His works are widely held in the public collections, including the Royal Academy and the Government Art Collection, the latter of which holds many of his views of Cambridge. Condition: mounted to board. Slight but even age toning. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Christ Church. -
Derrick Latimer Sayer (1917 - 1992)
Madonna and Child (Christmas Card)
Linocut 21 x 13.5 cm Mounted to card, signed 'Derrick Sayer' and dated Christmas 1968. Sayer's linocut of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus is hauntingly emotive; his spare use of line shows Mary, eyes closed, cradling her newborn son. Two animals from the stable in Bethlehem look on. Sayer studied at the Chelsea School of Art under Graham Sutherland and Henry Moore, and then in Paris in Ben Nicholson's studio. In the late 1930s he was in Cornwall, founding the Mousehole Group Art School. He was well known for his work as a poster artist and book illustrator. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Ronald T Horley (active 1930s - 1940s)
The Gateway to Cornwall
Charcoal heightened with white 76 x 53 cm Signed and inscribed lower right 'Architect's Office, 83 Marlborough Place NW8 Marylebone'. The Great Western Railway commissioned a series of posters promoting train travel around the UK. This charcoal drawing of the Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash is the artist's original design for a poster encouraging rail travel to Devon and Cornwall. The bridge is known fondly as the 'Gateway to Cornwall'. The Royal Albert Bridge was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Surveying started in 1848 and construction commenced in 1854. The first main span was positioned in 1857 and the completed bridge was opened by Prince Albert on 2 May 1859. Condition: generally very good; a few isolated spots to bottom left corner. Click here for other original vintage travel posters and designs. -
"HT"
Raven and Angel
Block print 28 x 41 cm Signed 'HT' upper right in the plate. A monochrome print of an angel holding a bird - usually a symbol of peace or prophecy. The birds here are black, however, rather than the more typical white dove, and the bird held by the weeping angel seems to be injured. Condition: generally very good; vertical crease to centre; even overall slight toning to paper. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Gerald Mac Spink (flourished 1920 - 1940)
Rodeo
Watercolour 15 x 23 cm Stallion bucking and whip cracking, a cowboy loses his hat. A depiction of the magnificent chapel at Kelham Hall, a sumptuous Gothic Revival Victorian country house designed by George Gilbert Scott. The artist highlights the soaring, cavernous proportions of the chapel and the delicate beauty of its focal point: a raised crucifix which also acts as an altar screen. There have been three halls at Kelham over the centuries, all built by the Manners Sutton family, whose links with Nottinghamshire go back to the 12th century. The first Kelham Hall was built shortly after the end of the Civil War for Robert Sutton, 1st Lord Lexington. It was destroyed by fire in 1728 and rebuilt for Bridget, the Duchess of Rutland, the daughter of the 2nd Lord Lexington. Bridget Sutton had married John Manners, the 3rd Duke of Rutland. Today's Kelham Hall was built by the revered Victorian architect Sir George Gilbert Scott after the second Hall was destroyed by fire in 1857. Between 1903 and 1973 the hall was used an Anglican theological college for the Society of the Sacred Mission, which built the domed chapel in 1928. The Hall is now a sought-after wedding venue. Spink was a skilled artist, illustrator, and designer who produced a series of posters in the inter-war period for companies including the London Underground, Southern Railways, LNER, Hawker Engineering, and British Steel. He won a prize in 1933 from the Imperial Institute for his poster artwork. He also worked as an aeronautical engineer in Kingston-on-Thames for Hawker Engineering; his greatest achievement was the creation of the 'Squanderbug', a 500cc racing car which he built in 1947, and which races even to this day. Provenance: the artist's estate. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works by the artist. -
Gerald Mac Spink (flourished 1920 - 1940)
Industrial Scene with Steam Locomotive
Block print 50 x 34 cm Signed 'G Mac Spink' in plate (in reverse) upper left. A beautifully-rendered, almost futurist industrial scene depicting a steam-powered locomotive. The metals of industry dwarf the men working below them, white with heat in chiaroscuro contrast to the dark shadows in the fore- and background of the print. Spink was a skilled artist, illustrator, and designer who produced a series of posters in the inter-war period for companies including the London Underground, Southern Railways, LNER, Hawker Engineering, and British Steel. He won a prize in 1933 from the Imperial Institute for his poster artwork. He also worked as an aeronautical engineer in Kingston-on-Thames for Hawker Engineering; his greatest achievement was the creation of the 'Squanderbug', a 500cc racing car which he built in 1947, and which races even to this day. Provenance: the artist's estate. Condition: generally very good; a few gentle handling creases; three little spots within image. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works by the artist. -
Gerald Mac Spink (flourished 1920 - 1940)
Art Deco City Scene with Engine Car
Block print 41 x 29 cm Signed 'G Mac Spink' in plate (in reverse) upper left. "Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps..." - F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby An Art Deco city with 1920s engine-cars in the foreground. A white tower-block rises up, emerging palely from a chiaroscuro darkness, a great edifice above the tiny pedestrians below. Spink was a skilled artist, illustrator, and designer who produced a series of posters in the inter-war period for companies including the London Underground, Southern Railways, LNER, Hawker Engineering, and British Steel. He won a prize in 1933 from the Imperial Institute for his poster artwork. He also worked as an aeronautical engineer in Kingston-on-Thames for Hawker Engineering; his greatest achievement was the creation of the 'Squanderbug', a 500cc racing car which he built in 1947, and which races even to this day. Provenance: the artist's estate. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works by the artist. -
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Gerald Mac Spink (flourished 1920 - 1940)
Kelham Hall Chapel II
Watercolour 29 x 24 cm Signed 'G Spink' lower left. A depiction of the magnificent chapel at Kelham Hall, a sumptuous Gothic Revival Victorian country house designed by George Gilbert Scott. The artist highlights the soaring, cavernous proportions of the chapel and the delicate beauty of its focal point: a raised crucifix which also acts as an altar screen. There have been three halls at Kelham over the centuries, all built by the Manners Sutton family, whose links with Nottinghamshire go back to the 12th century. The first Kelham Hall was built shortly after the end of the Civil War for Robert Sutton, 1st Lord Lexington. It was destroyed by fire in 1728 and rebuilt for Bridget, the Duchess of Rutland, the daughter of the 2nd Lord Lexington. Bridget Sutton had married John Manners, the 3rd Duke of Rutland. Today's Kelham Hall was built by the revered Victorian architect Sir George Gilbert Scott after the second Hall was destroyed by fire in 1857. Between 1903 and 1973 the hall was used an Anglican theological college for the Society of the Sacred Mission, which built the domed chapel in 1928. The Hall is now a sought-after wedding venue. Spink was a skilled artist, illustrator, and designer who produced a series of posters in the inter-war period for companies including the London Underground, Southern Railways, LNER, Hawker Engineering, and British Steel. He won a prize in 1933 from the Imperial Institute for his poster artwork. He also worked as an aeronautical engineer in Kingston-on-Thames for Hawker Engineering; his greatest achievement was the creation of the 'Squanderbug', a 500cc racing car which he built in 1947, and which races even to this day. Provenance: the artist's estate. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other architectural views. -
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Gerald Mac Spink (flourished 1920 - 1940)
Kelham Hall Chapel I
Watercolour 29 x 24 cm Signed 'G Spink' lower left. A depiction of the magnificent chapel at Kelham Hall, a sumptuous Gothic Revival Victorian country house designed by George Gilbert Scott. The artist highlights the soaring, cavernous proportions of the chapel and the delicate beauty of its focal point: a raised crucifix which also acts as an altar screen. There have been three halls at Kelham over the centuries, all built by the Manners Sutton family, whose links with Nottinghamshire go back to the 12th century. The first Kelham Hall was built shortly after the end of the Civil War for Robert Sutton, 1st Lord Lexington. It was destroyed by fire in 1728 and rebuilt for Bridget, the Duchess of Rutland, the daughter of the 2nd Lord Lexington. Bridget Sutton had married John Manners, the 3rd Duke of Rutland. Today's Kelham Hall was built by the revered Victorian architect Sir George Gilbert Scott after the second Hall was destroyed by fire in 1857. Between 1903 and 1973 the hall was used an Anglican theological college for the Society of the Sacred Mission, which built the domed chapel in 1928. The Hall is now a sought-after wedding venue. Spink was a skilled artist, illustrator, and designer who produced a series of posters in the inter-war period for companies including the London Underground, Southern Railways, LNER, Hawker Engineering, and British Steel. He won a prize in 1933 from the Imperial Institute for his poster artwork. He also worked as an aeronautical engineer in Kingston-on-Thames for Hawker Engineering; his greatest achievement was the creation of the 'Squanderbug', a 500cc racing car which he built in 1947, and which races even to this day. Provenance: the artist's estate. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other architectural views. -
Karl Hagedorn (1889 - 1969)
The Villa Malcontenta, Venice (1958)
Watercolour and ink 33 x 50 cm Signed and dated 1958 lower right (dated August 23rd to reverse). A watercolour of the Villa Malcontenta in Venice, nestled between willow trees. The River Brenta flows serenely in the foreground. Villa Foscari is a patrician villa in Mira, near Venice, northern Italy, designed by the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. It is also known as La Malcontenta ("The Discontented"), a nickname which - according to a legend - it received when the spouse of one of the Foscaris was locked up in the house because she allegedly did not live up to her conjugal duty. Karl Hagedorn was a painter and illustrator. He was educated in Berlin, and at the Manchester School of Technology, Manchester School of Art, and Slade School of Fine Art (where he later taught), before training in Paris under Maurice Denis. Hagedorn showed regularly at the Society of Modern Painters in Manchester, and then (from 1913 onwards), at the Royal Academy and the New English Art Club. He became a British citizen in 1914, and served in the British Army during World War I. During World War II, he sold pictures of military subjects to the United Kingdom Government's War Artists' Advisory Committee. He was also commissioned by the Recording Britain project to produce views of Middlesex and Derbyshire. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more Modern British painting. -
Hilary Hennes (née Hilary Miller) (1919 - 1993)
Seated Nude
Chalks 56 x 38 cm A chalk drawing of a seated female nude, with contemplative pose and expression. Hilary Miller was born in London, where her father was a curator at the South London Art Gallery. She attended Blackheath High School and, from 1936 to 1940, studied at the Blackheath School of Art, and then for a further three years at the Royal College of Art. After graduating, she taught at the South East Sussex Technical College and in 1946 married the artist Hubert Hennes. The couple lived in Oxford, where they both held teaching posts at the Oxford School of Art. Between 1948 and 1967 Miller frequently exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy in London, and also illustrated a number of books on gardening and natural history, such as 'The Living World' and 'Boff's Book of Gardening'. Provenance: the artist's studio sale. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works by the artist. -
Hilary Hennes (née Hilary Miller) (1919 - 1993)
Standing Nude
Chalks 56 x 38 cm A chalk drawing of a standing female nude. The reverse of Hennes' drawing Flowers on a Table. Hilary Miller was born in London, where her father was a curator at the South London Art Gallery. She attended Blackheath High School and, from 1936 to 1940, studied at the Blackheath School of Art, and then for a further three years at the Royal College of Art. After graduating, she taught at the South East Sussex Technical College and in 1946 married the artist Hubert Hennes. The couple lived in Oxford, where they both held teaching posts at the Oxford School of Art. Between 1948 and 1967 Miller frequently exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy in London, and also illustrated a number of books on gardening and natural history, such as 'The Living World' and 'Boff's Book of Gardening'. Provenance: the artist's studio sale. Condition: generally very good. The reverse of Hennes' drawing Flowers on a Table (see photograph above). If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works by the artist. -
Hilary Hennes (née Hilary Miller) (1919 - 1993)
Flowers on a Table
Chalks 56 x 38 cm A chalk drawing depicting a vase of bright flowers on a table in a high-ceilinged room with elegant architectural features. Hilary Miller was born in London, where her father was a curator at the South London Art Gallery. She attended Blackheath High School and, from 1936 to 1940, studied at the Blackheath School of Art, and then for a further three years at the Royal College of Art. After graduating, she taught at the South East Sussex Technical College and in 1946 married the artist Hubert Hennes. The couple lived in Oxford, where they both held teaching posts at the Oxford School of Art. Between 1948 and 1967 Miller frequently exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy in London, and also illustrated a number of books on gardening and natural history, such as 'The Living World' and 'Boff's Book of Gardening'. Provenance: the artist's studio sale. Condition: generally very good. Drawing of a standing nude to the reverse (see photographs). If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works by the artist. -
Lady Margaret Myddleton (1910 - 2003)
Harbour at Menton
Oil on canvas 32 x 45 cm Signed lower left, and titled on label to reverse. Myddleton's sunny view of this fashionable Cote d'Azur port sees two sailing boats make their way into the harbour, as three onlookers watch from the pier. Behind them rise the town's sun-drenched buildings, including the basilica of Saint-Michel-Archange, and the purple of the French Alps. Lady Margaret Myddleton was an accomplished painter, painting interiors, country houses, and landscapes (both home and abroad). This was likely painted while Lady Myddleton was holidaying on the French Riviera. Most of her watercolours are on display in Chirk Castle, Wrexham, the family seat of the Myddleton family since 1593 (although the castle's ownership was transferred to the National Trust in 1981). Lady Myddelton was the chatelaine of the castle for thirty years, and died there in 2003. She had married Lt-Col Ririd Myddelton (Deputy Master of the Household to King George VI) in 1931, and the couple struggled to maintain the castle and estate. In 1978, Chirk and its 468 acres of parkland were bought for the nation through the National Land Fund and for the next three years were administered by the Welsh Office. In 1981 they passed to the National Trust, which now manages them. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more Modern British original painting. -
John Hoyland (1934 - 2011)
Yellows (1969)
Screenprint 56 x 94 cmArtist’s proof. Signed and dated lower right.
Hoyland's abstract print is made up of wide fields of colour, formally arranged. Paul Moorhouse wrote of the artist's ‘insistence on eliminating figurative references’, and here we have an entirely abstract composition - one which has no desire to depict anything figurative, anything tangible. The colours are vivid, with the ‘restrictive palette in which red-green oppositions are dominant’ which marks Hoyland's early work is cautiously evident here. The abstraction is deliberately imperfect: small yellow splashes break into the expanse of green, and the texture of that green overtly demonstrates its texture and madeness. Hoyland's prints are keen to remind us of the physical process of their making, relying on the tension between the formal and the informal to do so. John Hoyland was one of Britain's most revered post-war abstract artists. He was born in Sheffield and studied at the Sheffield School of Art and Crafts, and then Sheffield College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools in London. His first solo exhibition was held at the Marlborough New London Gallery in 1964. Retrospectives of his paintings have been held at the Serpentine Gallery (1979), the Royal Academy (1999) and Tate St Ives (2006). Hoyland was elected to the Royal Academy in 1991 and was appointed Professor of Painting at the Royal Academy Schools in 1999. Condition: very good; recent heavy handsome frame. Glass will be removed for international shipping. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other Modern British Print. -
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Mary Fedden (1915 - 2012)
The Tabac Jar
Lithograph 26 x 31 cm Signed lower right and numbered 156/550 lower left, both in pencil; signed and dated 1996 in the plate. A typically Fedden still life: a fruit bowl, jug of utensils, and vine of tomatoes on a gingham tablecloth. Beyond the table, a harbour scene including whitewashed buildings, sailing boat, and lighthouse. The form of the objects in her still life composition, and her lilting use of perspective, are immediately recognisable as Fedden's style. Mary Fedden was a Bristol-born artist who studied at the Slade School of Art in London in the 1930s. She painted sets for ballets at Sadlers Wells, then went on to teach art and paint portraits in Bristol. During the war she served in the Land Army and the Woman's Voluntary Service, and then worked in London as a stage painter for the Arts Theatre. In 1944 she went overseas as a driver for the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes. In 1946 she resumed easel painting and held her first exhibition at the Mansard Gallery in Heal's Department Store in 1947. In 1951 she married the artist Julian Trevelyan, and the couple travelled the world together. She began to teach painting at the Royal Academy in the late 1950s and was elected RA in 1992. She lived and worked in her Durham Wharf studio from 1949 until her death. Condition: generally very good; framed. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other pictures by Mary Fedden. -
Bernard Myers (1925 - 2007)
Chiswick Reach
Oil on paper 50 x 72 cm Myers' impressionist view of Chiswick Reach (likely painted from his studio, which overlooked the Thames) depicts a hazy morning mist making its way down the river. The artist's sparse and muted palette renders the sky barely discernible from the water; chevron brushstrokes make up trees which cast their shadows over the Thames. A flotilla of boats, ghost-like with their white sails, appear from the blue mist. Bernard Myers was a painter and printmaker who trained at St Martin’s School of Art, the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, and the Royal College of Art in the 1940s and 1950s. This painting won the David Murray Landscape Scholarship and was painted while Myers was a student at the RCA. He went on to teach there before moving into a studio in Hammersmith. He lived and painted at 5 Durham Wharf, just off Chiswick Mall and with a view of the Thames, from the 1980s until his death in 2007. Provenance: New Grafton Gallery. Condition: excellent. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of London.
