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David Loggan (1634-1692) All Souls College, Oxford
Collegium Omnium Animarum Engraving (1675) 30x40cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
David Loggan (1634-1692) St Alban Hall, Merton College, Oxford
Aula St Albani Engraving (1675) 25x35cm St Alban's Quad was originally St Alban Hall, a medieval student residence that survived as an independent Hall of the University until 1882, when it was incorporated with Merton College. John Henry Newman briefly held the position of vice-principal in 1825. The St Alban's Hall buildings were reconstructed by Basil Champneys in 1905-1910. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
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. -
David Loggan (1634-1692)
All Souls College, Oxford
Engraving (1675) with later hand colouring 30x40cm 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. -
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. -
David Loggan (1634-1692)
Magdalen Hall Oxford
Engraving, 1690 35x25cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
David Loggan (1634-1692)
Hall of the Blessed Virgin Oxford Engraving 25x35cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
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. -
William Nicholson (1872-1949)
Merton College, Oxford (1906)
Lithograph, signed lower left, with Stafford Gallery blindstamp 33.5 x 24.5cm 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. -
William Nicholson (1872-1949)
Christ Church, Oxford (1906)
Lithograph, with Stafford Gallery blindstamp 35.5x27cm 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. -
William Nicholson (1872-1949)
Clarendon Building Oxford (1906)
Lithograph, signed lower left, with Stafford Gallery blindstamp 32 x 26cm 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. -
David Loggan (1634-1692) Bodleian Library Oxford - aerial view
Engraving (1675) with later hand colouring 30x40cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
David Loggan (1634-1692) Botanic Gardens Oxford
Engraving (1675) with later hand colouring 30x40cm 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' (c. 1708). The contemporary artist Andrew Ingamells (b.1956) has produced a highly-acclaimed series of etchings which bring Loggan’s original vision up to date. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
David Loggan (1634-1692)
St John's College Oxford, Canterbury Quad
Engraving (1675) with later hand colouring 31x50cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
