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S Clapham (active 1940 - 1960)
Design for Modernist Seaside House
Watercolour 27 x 40 cm Signed lower left and inscribed to reverse. Clapham's designs for a modernist war memorial to be erected in a training area at an army base. Clapham was an architect based in Stockwell in London. 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. -
S Clapham (active 1940 - 1960)
Proposed Memorial for the Battle Training Area
Pencil wash 49 x 70 cm Signed lower left and inscribed to reverse. Clapham's designs for a modernist war memorial to be erected in a training area at an army base. Clapham was an architect based in Stockwell in London. Condition: generally very good; one small mark to far right towards bottom. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works by the artist. -
Jane Gray (b.1931)
Applique Stained Glass Window Design
Watercolour18 x 16 cm
Studio label versoIn this stained glass design, Gray uses the appliqué method to construct a highly colourful, abstract, swirling image, typical of many of her more modern works. Gray uses the same technique as in other works of hers where a sense of the transcendental is married with modern abstraction, the viewer’s gaze hypnotically pulled in to the central red dot.
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. For other works by Jane Gray and more information about her, please click here. -
Jane Gray (b.1931)
Gilmour Coat of Arms, Stained Glass Window Design
Watercolour38.5 x 32.5 cm
Signed versoThe Gilmours are part of clan Morrison of the Isle of Lewis, and the first documented bearer of this surname was Richard Gilemore, who was recorded in the Feet of Fines of Huntindonshire in 1228 AD. The family mottoes include, as Gray uses here, Perseveranti dabitur, meaning ‘It will be given to the persevering’.
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. For other works by Jane Gray and more information about her, please click here. -
Jane Gray (b.1931)
Place Maubert, Paris (1951)
Ink on paper24.5 x 15.5 cm
Dated.This adolescent urban sketch of Paris depicts, as Gray notes next to her signature, Place Maubert, and shows Gray to be an observant and sensitive draughtsman. Lying in the 5th Arrondissement of Paris, the Place Maubert has a rich history, once used for debates and academics, and a famed site for religious pilgrimages, today it plays host to a popular open air market.
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. For other works by Jane Gray and more information about her, please click here. -
Jane Gray (b.1931)
The Scarlet Pimpernel’s Home, Richmond Hill (1949)
Ink and pencil on paper 25.5 x 20 cm Dated.This adolescent urban sketch of Richmond Hill depicts, as Gray notes next to her signature, Richmond House, the home of Baroness Orczy’s eponymous hero, Sir Percy (the Scarlet Pimpernel), and shows Gray to be an observant and sensitive draughtsman. In Orczy’s novel, Sir Percy rechristens Richmond House as Blakeney Manor and it quickly rises to the centre of fashionable society.
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. For other works by Jane Gray and more information about her, please click here. -
Jane Gray (b.1931)
Mosaic Design
Watercolour 11 x 12.5 cmThis highly modern, colourful and geometric stained mosaic design demonstrates Gray’s wide artistic range and love of employing colour and linear shapes in her work. The central image appears to depict a hamlet-like cluster of abstract houses surrounded by squares of field-like green.
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. For other works by Jane Gray and more information about her, please click here. -
Jane Gray (b.1931)
Stained Glass Window Design
Watercolour 3 x 22.5 cmThis design for a two part stained glass window has an almost transcendental quality, the central spiralling structure hypnotically drawing the viewer’s gaze inwards. The design perfectly marries Gray’s spiritual and more abstract, secular works across her career.
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. For other works by Jane Gray and more information about her, please click here. -
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Jane Gray (b.1931)
Geometric Stained Glass Window Designs
Watercolour 18 x 4.5 cmThis triptych of highly modern, colourful and geometric stained glass designs demonstrates Gray’s wide artistic range and love of colour and shapes. The three unique panels are united in their colourful palette and geometric focus but present strong stand alone designs.
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. For other works by Jane Gray and more information about her, please click here. -
Jane Gray (b.1931)
Stained Glass Window Design for Harold Pinter and Antonia Fraser (1980)
Watercolour and pencil 30.5 x 16 cmSigned lower right corner. Dated on backboard.
Harold Pinter and Antonia Fraser married in London in November 1980, five years after they first met, and only a few months after Gray commenced designing this impressive stained glass window for their house at 52 Campden Hill Square in London. Her notes surrounding the design give insights into her process and the themes and imagery she wished the design to contain such as: Harold and Antonia’s initials, cricket, hollyhocks, butterflies, medallions of test matches.
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. For other works by Jane Gray and more information about her, please click here. -
Jane Gray (b.1931)
The Artist's Studio (1947)
Watercolour 38 x 27.5 cmSigned (Jane Ross) and dated top right corner. Prize labels verso.
This rare, early watercolour interior of an artist’s studio by Gray, then Ross, was submitted to the Royal Drawing Society’s Exhibition Competition when Gray was only sixteen years old. Demonstrating fine draughtsmanship and a keen understanding of space, light and form, it is no surprise that the picture received a First Class Commendation.
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. For other works by Jane Gray and more information about her, please click here. -
Jane Gray (b.1931)
Arms of University of Cambridge Design for Stained Glass Window
Watercolour 23 x 21 cm Detailed in artist's handThe University of Cambridge is one of the world’s oldest universities, with groups of scholars first congregating at the ancient Roman trading post of Cambridge for the purpose of study in 1209, the first college (Peterhouse) being founded in 1284. The university was granted its arms some years later in 1573 by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms and a graduate of St. John's College. The granted arms are described in heraldic terminology, or blazon, as follows: Gules on a Cross Ermine between four Lions passant guardant Or a Bible fesswise Gules clasped and garnished Or the clasps in base.
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. For other works by Jane Gray and more information about her, please click here. -
S Clapham (active 1940 - 1960)
Puslinch House
Pencil 55 x 77 cm An architectural drawing of Puslinch House, a fine Christopher Wren-style Georgian mansion in Devon. The estate was owned by the Poslylinch, Mohun, and Upton families before being taken over by the Yonge family in 1718, following the marriage of John Yonge and Mary Upton. The Queen Anne House mansion was built on the occasion of their wedding and an earlier mediaeval house still exists in the grounds as a country cottage. During the war, the house was used as a voluntary hospital for wounded officers. Clapham was an architect based in Stockwell in London. Condition: generally good; a little spotting, backed to board by artist and signed to board lower right. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works by the artist. -
S Clapham (active 1940 - 1960)
St Paul's Cathedral
Watercolour 51 x 68 cm Signed lower right. This architectural watercolour is a panegyric to the English Baroque grandeur of St Paul's Cathedral. Three small figures climb the steps, emphasising the size and magnificence of the architecture around them. St Paul's was built between 1675 and 1711 by Sir Christopher Wren. The foundation stone was laid in 1675 when Wren was 43 years old, and the building works were completed 35 years later by Wren's son. Its construction was part of a major rebuilding programme in the city after the Great Fire of London. Clapham was an architect based in Stockwell in London. Condition: generally very good; a couple of spots. Mounted to board by artist and signed to board. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works by the artist. -
S Clapham (active 1940 - 1960)
Puslinch House
Watercolour 49 x 70 cm A beautifully-coloured watercolour of Puslinch House, a fine Christopher Wren-style Georgian mansion in Devon. The estate was owned by the Poslylinch, Mohun, and Upton families before being taken over by the Yonge family in 1718, following the marriage of John Yonge and Mary Upton. The Queen Anne House mansion was built on the occasion of their wedding and an earlier mediaeval house still exists in the grounds as a country cottage. During the war, the house was used as a voluntary hospital for wounded officers. Clapham was an architect based in Stockwell in London. Condition: generally very good; a little faint spotting to top right corner. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works by the artist. -
S Clapham (active 1940 - 1960)
A Pair of Heraldic Designs
Watercolour 49 x 70 cm Signed lower right. Clapham was an architect based in Stockwell in London. Condition: generally very good; short repaired edge tear (barely visible) to left side. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works by the artist. -
S Clapham (active 1940 - 1960)
Heraldic Design
Watercolour 51 x43 cm Signed lower right. Clapham was an architect based in Stockwell in London. 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. -
S Clapham (active 1940 - 1960)
A Modernist Church
Pencil 29 x 43 cm A design for an octagonal church in the modernist mid-century style. Clapham was an architect based in Stockwell in London. 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. -
S Clapham (active 1940 - 1960)
Designs for a Stained Glass Window
Watercolour 71 x 56 cm Signed lower right. A beautiful stained glass window design in the medievalist Arts and Crafts style popularised by William Morris in the 1890s. Clapham was an architect based in Stockwell in London. 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. -
S Clapham (active 1940 - 1960)
Designs for an Interlacing Motif (1949)
Watercolour 37 x 52 cm Dated 26-2-1949 and signed. Clapham was an architect based in Stockwell in London. 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. -
"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)
Flowers
Pen and ink 15 x 23 cm Signed 'G Spink' lower right. 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)
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)
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. -
Gerald Mac Spink (flourished 1920 - 1940)
Motorcyclist
Pencil on tracing paper 20 x 32 cm 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)
Stagecoach
Pencil 32 x 53 cm Signed 'Spink' lower right. 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. -
Henry Winstanley (1644 - 1703)
Rycote House, Oxfordshire
Engraving 19 x 44 cm Rycote House, Oxfordshire, was a Tudor (and later Georgian) country house. The house was built in the 16th century, and in 1920, after a period of decline, the extensive stables were converted into the present Rycote House. Condition: generally very good; some age toning. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other architectural drawings. -
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. -
H. Fluiss
Cotherstone with stud groom "Wilson" (1862)
Watercolour 30 x 39 cm A late-nineteenth century watercolour depicting Cotherstone, the British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted from September 1841 to July 1843, he ran eleven times and won eight races. Provenance: Christie's South Kensington (2002). Condition: generally very good; couple of faint spots to sky. Frame in "country house" condition. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
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George Hollis (1793 - 1842)
Worcester College Beaumont Street, Oxford (1823)
Engraving 25 x 32 cm A handsome engraving of Worcester College from a Beaumont Street still under construction. The street was laid out in the 1820s and 1830s in the Regency style and acts as a charming approach to Worcester's facade. George Hollis was a well-known Oxford-born artist and engraver. He studied art and worked primarily in Oxford. Many of his engravings, which often depicted the colleges, were published by James Ryman, a print-seller on the High Street. Hollis' views were published separately in a single volume in 1839. Condition: good. Mounted to board; vertical crease; in antique frame. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Worcester College, Oxford. -
Meadows-Frost (possibly Sir John Meadows Frost [1856 - 1935])
Charterhouse School Chapel
Watercolour 37 x 31 cm Signed 'Meadows-Frost' and dated. A watercolour of Charterhouse's magnificent gothic chapel. Designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the chapel was consecrated in 1927 as a memorial to nearly 700 Carthusians who died in the Great War. It is the largest war memorial in England. Sir John Meadows Frost was the Mayor of Chester from 1913 to 1918. The following record, likely referring to Sir John's eldest son, also appears in the Charterhouse Register of 1872-1910; this watercolour was executed in 1894. It is likely that one of the family painted it, and any more information as to which individual it was would be gratefully received: "Frost, John Meadows, t). 22 April, 1885: i g. of John Meadows Frost, of Chester; (Girdlestoneites); Left C.Q. 1903. Ch. Ch., Oxf.; B.A. — In firm of Messrs. F. A. Frost & Sons (Millers). tn. 1 910, Olivia, I "U. of Henry Shelmerdine, of Southport. J. M. Frost, Esq., junr., Holmfield, Westminster Park, Chester." Another son, Thomas Laurence Frost, was educated at Charterhouse between between 1901 and 1907, spending 3 years with the Charterhouse Cadet Corps, followed by Clare College, Cambridge. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
after Peter Brook (1927 - 2009)
Wytham - Oxford Almanack 1975
Lithograph 70 x 48 cm A lithograph of Wytham, a characterful and historic village north-west of Oxford. The original painting hangs in the Ashmolean Museum. Brook's painting was reproduced as a lithograph in 1975 to be published in the "Oxford Almanack". The Oxford Almanack was an annual almanack published by the Oxford University Press for the University of Oxford from 1674 through 2019 (when printing sadly ceased due to "dwindling interest"). The almanack traditionally included engravings or lithographs of the University and information about the upcoming year. Other almanack artists have included James Basire, Michael Burghers, J. M. W. Turner, and Michael Oelman. Peter Brook RBA was an English artist best known for his landscape paintings; he was nicknamed "The Pennine Landscape Painter". He was elected to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1962. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other general views of Oxford. -
after John Piper (1903 - 1992) View from the Upper Common Room, The Queen's College - Oxford Almanac 1972
Lithograph 68 x 49 cm A lithograph featuring Oxford's skyline, including the towers of All Souls and the Radcliffe Camera, set against a blustery Piper sky. Piper's painting was reproduced as a lithograph in 1972, to be published in the "Oxford Almanack". The Oxford Almanack was an annual almanac published by the Oxford University Press for the University of Oxford from 1674 through 2019 (when printing sadly ceased due to "dwindling interest"). The almanac traditionally included engravings or lithographs of the University and information about the upcoming year. Other almanac artists have included James Basire, Michael Burghers, J. M. W. Turner, and Michael Oelman. John Piper CH was an English painter, printmaker, and designer of stained-glass windows. His work often focused on the British landscape, especially churches and monuments, and included tapestry designs, book jackets, screen-prints, photography, fabrics and ceramics. 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 Queen's College, Oxford. -
after Michael Oelman (born 1941)
The River Cherwell, The Oxford Almanac 1981
Lithograph 71 x 47 cm A lithograph featuring Oxford's wondrous River Cherwell in University Parks, after an etching by Michael Oelman. A setting sun casts its gold light over the glassy surface of the river and its surrounding trees; two figures cross the Cherwell via the famous Rainbow Bridge. The curved footbridge was built in the early 1920s by the University a project for the unemployed. Oelman's etching was reproduced as a lithograph in 1981, to be published in the "Oxford Almanack". The Oxford Almanack was an annual almanac published by the Oxford University Press for the University of Oxford from 1674 through 2019 (when printing sadly ceased due to "dwindling interest"). The almanac traditionally included engravings or lithographs of the University and information about the upcoming year. Other almanac artists have included James Basire, Michael Burghers, J. M. W. Turner, and John Piper. Michael Oelman was born in Llandudno, Wales, in 1941. He studied fine art at Reading University and then etching and lithography at the Central and Slade Schools of Art. In the 1960s he studied with S. W. Hayter in Paris, and then became a lecturer in Printmaking at Doncaster College of Art, Yorkshire. His studio is in Suffolk. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other general views of Oxford. -
Jane Gray (b.1931)
St James, Temple Sowerby, Cumbria, Design for Stained Glass Window (1978)
Watercolour 30 x 12 cm Signed and dated verso.St James’ Church in Temple Sowerby, Cumbria was built in 1754, and enlarged in 1770, the west tower being added in 1807. In his 1831 work, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Samuel Lewis described the church as ‘a handsome structure of red freestone, with a square tower and portico’.
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. For other works by Jane Gray and more information about her, please click here. -
Jane Gray (b.1931)
St Anne’s Church, Copp, Great Eccleston, Design for Stained Glass Window (1979)
Watercolour 19 x 6.5 cm Studio label verso.A chapel was first built at Copp in 1723 for the members of St. Michaels on Wyre Church and Kirkham Church who were too far from their parish churches. Elswick Chapel would have been ideal for the purpose, but as it was in the hands of dissenters the bishop of the time, Bishop Gastrall, decided a new building would be preferable. On May 13th, 1723, a deed was drawn up arranging for three men to rent a piece of land (known as Higher Cop) for one peppercorn a year to build a new chapel. St. Anne's Chapel was built that same year. It wasn’t until 1849, however, that Copp Parish was formed by an Order in Council at Queen Victoria's court at Windsor. The church was completely restored in 1884, the outside transformed by building over it in Yorkshire stone, and the tower raised to 45ft. This window design centres on the scene of Christ healing a lame man and features symbolic images of loaves and fishes. The window was installed in 1979.
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale. Literature: Jane Gray, Playing with Rainbows. (Shropshire: Ellingham Press, 2011), p.75. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. For other works by Jane Gray and more information about her, please click here. -
Jane Gray (b.1931)
Design for Stained Glass Panel in a Private House (1978)
Watercolour 10 x 8 cm Signed and dated verso.This design is for a window commemorating Arthur Henry Edmond Esq., of Ranelagh, 50 Russell Road, Moor Park, Northwood, Middlesex, who held the position of High Sheriff of Greater London between 1973-4. The Clan from whom the Arthurs family descends began among the ancient Dalriadan kingdom of the west coast of Scotland. Their name comes from the Celtic personal name, Arthur, which is of various and often disputed etymology. The personal name Arthur may be derived from some early cognate of the Gaelic “art” and the Welsh “arth”, meaning “bear” and may indicate early Celtic worship of the bear or one who has a high regard for the bear’s virtuous qualities. The Latin motto, ‘Impelle obstantia’ (meaning, 'Thrust aside obstacles’) would originally have acted a war cry or slogan. Mottoes first appeared in coast of arms in the 14th and 15th centuries, but were not in general use until the 17th century. The office of High Sheriff of Greater London was created in 1965 and granted armorial bearings 1966. The blazon of the arms, as depicted here is: ‘Gules, two seaxes in saltire argent, pommels and hilts or, between in chief a Saxon Crown or and in base a horse courant argent’.
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. For other works by Jane Gray and more information about her, please click here. -
Jane Gray (b.1931)
All Saints Church, North Hillingdon, Design for Stained Glass Window (1982)
Watercolour 15 x 14 cm Studio label verso.All Saints Church, North Hillingdon was constructed in 1930—one of the first of 45 new churches from “The Forty-Five Church Funds” to build new sites of worship in and around the diocese of London. The church was designed by Sir Charles Nicholson and built in Metroland to serve families being moved from inner London. In 1932, the foundations of the church were laid and it was consecrated by in 1933 by the Bishop of Kensington.
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. For other works by Jane Gray and more information about her, please click here. -
Jane Gray (b.1931)
St James’ Church, Weddington, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, Design for Stained Glass Memorial Window (1989)
Watercolour 19 x 10.5 cm Signed, dated and studio stamp verso.St James’ Church in Weddington dates back to the early-14th-century. The chancel, nave, and west tower were rebuilt in red brick in 1733, and the building was restored in 1881, when Gothic windows were inserted in place of the 1733 details. This design fantastically demonstrates Gray’s modernist style, with her colourful palette and simple yet detailed, geometrical structure. This window was installed in 1990.
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale. Literature: Jane Gray, Playing with Rainbows. (Shropshire: Ellingham Press, 2011), p.80. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. For other works by Jane Gray and more information about her, please click here. -
Jane Gray (b.1931)
All Saints Church, Lightwater, Surrey, Design for Stained Glass Memorial Window (1987)
Watercolour 18 x 5 cm Signed and dated verso.All Saints Church in Lightwater, Surrey was built and dedicated in 1903. Prior to this, services were held in Florence Laundry in Guildford Road as, at that time, Lightwater was a small hamlet. With the development of nurseries and cottages to house the influx of workers that followed soon after, the Conventional District of All Saints’ was formed in 1931. Before this, All Saints Church had been a daughter church of Windlesham. A Priest-in-Charge was appointed shortly after the split in 1931 and a vestry extension was added to the building. This window features a background Cross, symbols and flowers and was installed in 1988.
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale. Literature: Jane Gray, Playing with Rainbows. (Shropshire: Ellingham Press, 2011), p.79. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. For other works by Jane Gray and more information about her, please click here. -
Jane Gray (b.1931)
Saling Hall, Essex, Floral Design for Stained Glass Window
Watercolour 11 x 20 cmSaling Hall, in Essex, has a long and rich history, dating back to the early 12th century when Sir Baldwin Wiscart was the first recorded Lord of the Manor. After his his son, the house passed to the knightly family of Bibbesworth, who lived there for four generations. Sir Walter de Bibbesworth was a crusader and a poet (in French). Nothing remains of the first Saling Hall which was rebuilt around 1590 by the Maxey family who had bought the hall in 1487. The house faced further remodelling by its 17th century owner, Martin Carter, a lawyer. He ornamented the new facade with Dutch gables, which are the latest example of their kind in Essex, and the house has changed little since. The hall passed through many more hands before it was bought, in 1935, by Lady Isabella Carlyle (née Barton) who was a passionate gardener and gave the Hall its first modern gardens. Lady Carlyle sold the Hall in 1971 to Hugh Johnson, a well known garden writer, who continued Lady Carlyle’s work on the gardens. This watercolour sketch is an early design for a stained glass window commissioned by Johnson for a fanlight in Saling Hall. Johnson wished the design to include the plants he grew in his own garden to symbolise the seasons. Gray designed the panel using Corsican Hellebore for winter, the Crown Imperial Fritillary for spring, Dog Rose for summer (although, this was changed to Agapanthus in the final design), and Japanese Anemones for autumn. In the final window, Gray also included vines to frame the design and nod to Johnson’s oenological interests.
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale. Literature: Jane Gray, Playing with Rainbows. (Shropshire: Ellingham Press, 2011), p.40. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. For other works by Jane Gray and more information about her, please click here. -
Jane Gray (b.1931)
Early Design for Stained Glass Memorial Window (1962)
Watercolour 27.5 x 9 cmA rare example of Gray’s early work, this design shows a more traditional approach to stained glass window design, something that Gray came to eschew in favour of a more modern style in much of her later work. This design was for a memorial window commemorating Rosemary Anstice, although its intended location is unknown.
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. For other works by Jane Gray and more information about her, please click here. -
Jane Gray (b.1931)
St Wilfrid’s Church, Ribchester, Lancashire, Design for Stained Glass Memorial Window (1995)
Watercolour 20.5 x 3.5 cm Signed, dated and studio stamp verso.St Wilfrid’s Church, Ribchester is situated in the picturesque Ribble Valley, in the heart of rural Lancashire, and dates back to the 13th century. It has since undergone several alterations in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries as well as substantial restoration works in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. The village of Ribchester grew out of the ruins of the Roman fort of Bremetenaccum and the Parish Church of St Wilfrid's stands where the key buildings of the fort would have been. This window was installed in 1996.
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale. Literature: Jane Gray, Playing with Rainbows. (Shropshire: Ellingham Press, 2011), p.84. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. For other works by Jane Gray and more information about her, please click here.
