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Peter Collins ARCA (1923-200 Royal Naval Bandsman
Black paint 44x27cm Provenance: The Artist's Studio If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally good, a little gentle spotting. Click here for other items by the artist and for biographical details. -
Fahye Design Consultants for Cunard
Queen Elizabeth 2 - Midships Lobby
Gouache and lettraset 59 x 83 cm A fabulously mid-century design for a lobby in the QE2, a luxury ocean liner operated by Cunard from 1969 to 2008. Glamorous passengers in black tie mingle in the lobby before dinner. A sunken conversation pit marks the mid-century interior style of the ship. The Queen Elizabeth 2 was designed in Cunard's offices in Liverpool and Southampton and built in Clydebank, Scotland. She was retired in 2018 and is now a floating hotel in Dubai. Condition: very good; mounted to foamboard. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Fahye Design Consultants for Cunard
Queen Elizabeth 2 - Staircase G
Gouache and lettraset 59 x 83 cm A fabulously mid-century design for a staircase in the QE2, a luxury ocean liner operated by Cunard from 1969 to 2008. Glamorous passengers in black tie mingle on the staircase landing before dinner. Fahye's gouache designs illustrate the mid-century modern aesthetic of the golden age of ocean travel. The Queen Elizabeth 2 was designed in Cunard's offices in Liverpool and Southampton and built in Clydebank, Scotland. She was retired in 2018 and is now a floating hotel in Dubai. Condition: very good; mounted to foamboard. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Gerald Mac Spink (flourished 1920 - 1940)
Sailing ship
Pencil 31 x 38 cm A stormy sea and the wind in her sails. 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. -
Sydney Vale F. R. S. A. (1916 - 1991)
A warship passing under Tower Bridge
Watercolour 35 x 50 cm Born in 1916, Sydney Vale was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the prestigious Wapping Group of Artists from 1972 to 1991, which was formed primarily to record life in London's Docklands. Within this group, Vale and his contemporaries specialised in portraying the charm and romance of the River Thames from source to estuary. -
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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. -
W. A. Scott
S. S. Automedon (1956)
26 x 33.5 cm
Bodycolour and ink on paper Signed l.r.SS Automedon was a Blue Funnel Line refrigerated cargo steamship. She was launched in 1921 on the River Tyne as one of a class of 11 ships to replace many of Blue Funnel's losses in the First World War.
A converted German auxiliary cruiser and merchant raider Atlantis captured and scuttled Automedon in 1940 in the Indian Ocean. Her capture is notable because she was carrying top secret documents addressed to the British Far East Command. Their capture may have influenced Japan's decision to enter the Second World War.
Automedon was Achilles' charioteer in Homer’s Iliad. This was the first of three Blue Funnel Line ships to be named after him. The second was a motor ship launched in 1949 and scrapped in 1972. The third was a motor ship launched in 1948 as Cyclops, renamed Automedon in 1975 and scrapped in 1977.
W. A. Scott was a marine artist known for his highly accurate line and body colour drawings. It is likely that he was an admirer of Laurence Dunn as his work bears much resemblance to Dunn's highly regarded marine drawings.
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W. A. Scott
The Titanic Sinking
23 x 37 cm
Bodycolour and ink on paperW. A. Scott was a marine artist known for his highly accurate line and body colour drawings.
It is likely that Scott was an admirer of Laurence Dunn as his work bears much resemblance to Dunn's highly regarded marine drawings.
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Y Entry to the Navy
Original Lithographic Poster 76x51cm If you are interested, email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
