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Henry Cliffe (1919-1983) Two Standing Nudes
Etching Mid 20th Century 27x25cm Click here for biographical details and other pictures by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Clifford Ellis (1907-1985)
Swallow
Pencil, 1950s 17.5x21.5 cm In a Nicholson butt-jointed frame Provenance: the family of the artist, by descent. Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. Clifford and Rosemary Ellis were famous as a husband and wife team for their fascination with nature and their vibrant and charming depictions of animals. They were the natural artists to be commissioned by Collins for their 'New Naturalists' series of books, which have become famous and highly collectable more for the dust jackets designed by the Ellises than for the - otherwise excellent - content. This painting is from a recently discovered series of paintings and drawings, never before seen by the general public, dating from the 1940s and 1950s. Clifford and Rosemary wrote a series of illustrated books for young children including this one featuring Chico. Although never published they are now held by the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Anonymous Boston Museum Centennial 1870-1970
"Mandala of Eight Bodhisatlvas, Nepal 12th Century, Centennial Acquisition" 97x70cm Vintage poster 1970 If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Anonymous Boston Museum Centennial 1870-1970
"Narcissus Tapestry, French or Franco-Flemish, Late 15th or 16th Century, Centennial Acquisition" 97x70cm Vintage poster 1970 If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. Two repaired edge tears to right margin, not into image, one 3" long, other shorter; one repaired short tear to left. -
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Claude Muncaster (1903-1974) Farmstead and Trees
Dated Sept 1921 Signed on reverse with additional sketches of figures Watercolour 22x28cm Claude Grahame Muncaster, RWS, ROI, RBA, SMA was the son of Oliver Hall RA. At the age of fifteen his career as a landscape painter began, and he soon took to the seas, spending the 1920s and 30s travelling the world with his sketchbook in a series of vessels. With the outbreak of war and he joined the RNVR training as a navigator. Having left school at fifteen his mathematics was very weak and it was a relief for all when his artistic talents meant he was recruited as a camofleur. A master of capturing seascapes he was therefore able to hide huge ships ‘in plain sight’ with clever disguises. After the war he painted for the Royal Family and was a frequent guest at Sandringham. Claude Muncaster was a watercolourist known for his landscapes and maritime scenes. He was born Grahame Hall, the son of the Royal Academician Oliver Hall who taught his son to paint from an early age; Grahame first exhibited his work aged 15 and a few years later was showing at the RA. However, he adopted the name Claude Muncaster in 1922 to dissociate his career from that of his father. Muncaster’s primary choice of subject matter came from a genuine love of the sea. He made several long-distance sea voyages, including one around the Horn as a deckhand in the windjammer Olivebank in 1931, which he described in ‘Rolling Round the Horn’, published in 1933. Armed with a sketchbook, his aim was to be able to ‘paint ships and the sea with greater authority’. This he certainly achieved, perfectly capturing the limpid first light of morning over the Port of Aden, the choppy rain-grey waters of the Bay of Biscay and a streak of sunlight through gathering storm clouds at dusk in Exeter. He became an Associate of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1931 and was a founder member, and later President, of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. During the Second World War, Muncaster served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) from 1940-44, training as a navigator before going on to advise on the camouflage of ships, and also worked as an official war artist. In ‘Still Morning at Aden’ (1944) he depicts Allied warships in this safe anchorage in the Middle East; the back is stamped with Admiralty approval. In 1946-7 he was commissioned by the Queen to produce watercolours of the royal residences at Windsor, Sandringham and Balmoral; the Duke of Edinburgh, in a foreword to a biography of Muncaster, recalls looking at these and considering the artist’s ‘unerring instinct for a subject’, his sense of atmosphere. Other commissions included large panoramas of the Thames and of Bradford. His career also included work as an etcher, illustrator, writer, lecturer and broadcaster, and his paintings can be found in the Royal Academy, Tate, National Maritime Museum Cornwall, National Railway Museum and Royal Air Force Museum. Condition: generally good, few isolated spots to sky as can be seen in the magnified version of the picture. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Ernest Bertram
I Hear They Want More Bovril (1903)
Lithograph 117 x 79 cm An original poster advertising Bovril. The darkly funny poster features the Bovril bulls, which appeared on many posters advertising the brand, dismayed to hear that more of the meat paste is required - perhaps requiring a contribution from them. Condition: backed to linen; old creases and losses touched in with gouache: three areas approx 1" square near and vertically above 'B' of Bovril, and also to top margin. Generaly presents well, however. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage posters. -
Danish Society of Arts and Crafts
'Vort Hjem', "Our Home" poster (c. 1950)
Lithographic poster 80.5 x 57 cm A poster advertising the 'Vort Hjem Nordisk Udstilling' - the "Our Home: Nordic Exhibition". The exhibition explored Nordic interior design and was commissioned by the Danish Society of Arts and Crafts. The poster presents a domestic scene of a woman arranging flowers; we see her through the glass panels of an ajar door, which invites us into the typically Danish interior. If you'd like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent. -
Builders YOU Are Hitting Back Original WW2 Poster (c.1940)
'Builders - YOU Are Hitting Back' Original WW2 Poster (c.1940) 76 x 50.5 cm Lithograph and letterpress (on paper) Printed by Lowe and Brydone Printers Ltd, London NW10. Published by HM Stationery Office. Because: You are building bases for the Flying Boats which guard the convoys You are building the Factories which makes the guns, tanks, planes & shells You are building the Airfields for the ever increasing number of bombers and fighters - Spitfire You are building the Hostels for your fellow workers to live in You are building the warehouses which store the Nation's Food Supply -
Switzerland of Tomorrow Welcomes You Today (1964)
Lithographic poster 152.4cm x 63.5 cm 1964 Original "Switzerland of Tomorrow" poster from the 1964 Swiss National Exhibition. As well as a brilliantly-designed futuristic poster printed in rich colours, it is a real piece of Swiss (and European) history. The poster is the English-language edition of a tourism-encouraging poster produced in several languages to welcome international visitors to an exhibition of Swiss innovation. Switzerland holds such an event four times per century, and the exhibitions often act as a portrait of contemporary culture, design, and politics. The 1964 National Exhibition in Lausanne offered a rather different representation of Switzerland from previous exhibitions. This was partly the result of its being held during one of the tensest periods of the Cold War; the attitudes of the Swiss were changing as the twentieth century progressed, as was the case for most Europeans, and the shadow of war had encouraged many citizens, businesses, and public bodies to reexamine their values. At "Expo 64", the nickname for that year's exhibition, the 'Gulliver Project' was introduced. The exhibition organisers made use of the character Gulliver (from Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels' to assess visitors' attitudes to daily life. A small questionnaire written by "Gulliver" was given to visitors, asking them questions about their societal attitudes, domestic lives, and work ethics, such as "Can you be a good Swiss and get up at 9am?". The theatre director Charles Apothéloz suggested having Gulliver ask these questions so as to make the questionnaire seem less serious, and to encourage people to answer truthfully. The questionnaire answers were compiled and analysed, but never published, as had been Apothéloz's initial intention. Charles Ascher discusses this at length in his 1965 article 'Gulliver in the Land of the Swiss'. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good, pinholes to corners with some soft creases along bottom inch (would be hidden by mount). -
Claude Muncaster (1903 - 1974)
Stromness, Orkney
Pencil drawing 23 x 53 cm A drawing of Stromness, Orkney, with two figures in the foreground. The buildings seem tiny in comparison to the huge cliffs overlooking the town. Claude Grahame Muncaster, RWS ROI RBA SMA was the son of Oliver Hall RA. He was born Grahame Hall (his father was the Royal Academician Oliver Hall, who taught his son to paint from an early age) but adopted the name Claude Muncaster in 1922, hoping to strike out on his own and dissociate his career from that of his father. His career as a landscape painter began when he was fifteen; he spent the 1920s and 30s travelling the world with his sketchbook by boat. Muncaster’s primary choice of subject matter came from a genuine love of the sea. He made several long-distance sea voyages, including one around the Horn as a deckhand in the windjammer Olivebank in 1931, which he described in ‘Rolling Round the Horn’, published in 1933. Armed with a sketchbook, his aim was to be able to ‘paint ships and the sea with greater authority’. This he certainly achieved, perfectly capturing the limpid first light of morning over the Port of Aden, the choppy rain-grey waters of the Bay of Biscay and a streak of sunlight through gathering storm clouds at dusk in Exeter. He became an Associate of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1931 and was a founder member, and later President, of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. When the Second World War broke out, Muncaster joined the Royal Naval Reserves, training as a navigator before going on to advise on the camouflage of ships. He also worked as an official war artist. In ‘Still Morning at Aden’ (1944) he depicts Allied warships in this safe anchorage in the Middle East; the back is stamped with Admiralty approval. In 1946-7 he was commissioned by the Queen to produce watercolours of the royal residences (some of which are available below); the Duke of Edinburgh, in a foreword to a biography of Muncaster, recalls looking at these and considering the artist’s ‘unerring instinct for a subject’, his sense of atmosphere. Other commissions included large panoramas of the Thames and of Bradford. His career also included work as an etcher, illustrator, writer, lecturer and broadcaster, and his paintings can be found in the Royal Academy, Tate, National Maritime Museum Cornwall, National Railway Museum and Royal Air Force Museum. He was a frequent guest at Sandringham for the rest of his life. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works by the artist. -
David Loggan (1634 - 1692)
The Divinity School, Oxford (1675)
Engraving 33 x 41 cm David Loggan's view of Oxford's medieval Divinity School, which was once the beating heart of theological studies at the University. Of particular interest here is the trompe l'oeil scroll of torn paper which frames the view. 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' (circa 1708). The contemporary artist Andrew Ingamells (born 1956) has produced a highly-acclaimed series of etchings which bring Loggan’s original vision up to date. Condition: trimmed within platemark and mounted to board, otherwise in very good condition. 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 Mary’s Church, Chirk, Design for Stained Glass Window Dedicated to the Royal British Legion (1992)
Watercolour 28 x 20.5 cmSigned, dated and studio stamp verso.
The first stone church in Chirk was erected during the early 11th Century by the Normans, however, the site of St Mary’s church is originally thought to be a llan—a Welsh phrase that denotes a walled enclosure containing a chapel, hermit’s huts and burials—dedicated to Saint Tysilio. The church was re-dedicated to Saint Mary in the late 15th or early 16th century and remained part of the Church of England until the disestablishment of the Welsh Church in 1921. Gray’s stained glass design commemorates the 50th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings in her inimitably modern style and features the archetypal motif of red poppies, scattered across the three window panels. The leek, rose, thistle, and shamrock roundels nod to the key symbols of the British Isles. The window was installed and dedicated by the Archbishop of Wales in 1994.
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale. Literature: Jane Gray, Playing with Rainbows. (Shropshire: Ellingham Press, 2011), p.50, 83. 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. -
Whitlock
Your Savings Soon Mount Up (1930)
Original vintage poster 76 x 50 cm Issued by the National Savings Committee, Westminster, SW1. Printed for HM Stationery Office by Messrs McCaw, Stevenson, & Orr Ltd, London. This poster, depicting a biplane soaring over the British countryside, was designed and published by the Government to promote saving. Posters like this encouraged people to save via National Savings - in doing so, their savings would mount like the pictured plane. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage National Savings posters. -
Joseph Constantine Stadler (1755 - 1828) after Joseph Farington (1747 - 1821)
View of Greenwich and Down the River (1795)
Hand-coloured engraving 23 x 33 cm Joseph Constantine Stadler was a prolific German émigré engraver of images after his contemporaries - here, 18th-century English landscape painter and diarist Joseph Farington. Stadler's engravings are wide-ranging in subject matter and include landscapes, seascapes and portraits, as well as military, sporting and decorative subjects. Stadler was employed by the leading print publisher of the time, John Boydell. Stadler lived in Knightsbridge when he died at the age of 73. Joseph Farington was born in Lancashire and went to study with Richard Wilson in London in 1763. In 1764, 1765, and 1766 he won "premiums" from the Society of Artists for his landscape drawing; he became a member in 1765. He joined the Royal Academy when it was founded in 1769 and was elected an ARA in 1783 and an RA in 1785. Farington contributed works to the Academy's exhibitions every year until 1801, but only occasionally between 1801 and 1813. He was an active member of the Academy and sat on several important committees, including the one which determined where artworks would be hung during the exhibitions. In 1793 he became a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and helped establish the British Institution. Condition: very good. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Ludwig Lund (1908-2003)
St John’s College Wren Bridge
Watercolour 26 x 21 cm 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. Condition: Good. -
Anonymous (British, c. 1900) St John's College Cambridge from the River, Scholars Before
39x28cm Watercolour Scholars loll on the bank of the River Cam as they do today, and presumably have done ever since the foundation of the college in 1511. A dreamy view of one of the prettiest views in Cambridge. Condition: generally very good, slight staining to very margins, outside mount area. -
Innsbruck Tyrol Austria
Lithographic poster 47x47cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Austria: Osterreich
Lithographic poster 81x50cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056. -
Jane Gray (b.1931)
Church of St Andrew and St Mary, Pitminster, Somerset, Design for Stained Glass Window (1987)
Watercolour 40.5 x 20.5 cmSigned, dated and studio stamp verso.
The Church of St Andrew and St Mary in Pitminster was built on the site of an earlier Saxon church around 1300 and was later added to in the 15th century and restored in 1869 by the prolific English Gothic Revival architect, Sir Gilbert Scott. Gray’s design for the east window of the church, featuring a colourful Christian depiction of Christ calling Andrew to be his disciple; the window features the Sea of Galilee, the heavenly city and fishing symbols, accompanied by the line, ‘Follow me, I will make you fishers of men’, from Matthew 4:19. The window was installed in 1989.
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale. Literature: Jane Gray, Playing with Rainbows. (Shropshire: Ellingham Press, 2011), pp.44-5, 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. -
Frank Algernon Stewart (1877-1945) The Heythrop at Stow on the Wold Lithograph 24 x 63cm Signed in pencil. Framed. A typical hunting print by Stewart, showing one of the country's leading packs. Condition: Slight, even, loss of colour, as expected. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Brenda King (1934-2011)
Venetian Schoolchildren (1974)
Oil on board 16.5.x 20.5 cm Signed and dated lower right. Naive scene of school children in a Venetian square in a distinctive 1970s frame. Brenda King was born in Cumbria in 1934. She enrolled at the Lancaster College of Art from 1950 to 1954 before enrolling at the Royal Academy from 1954 to 1957, indeed, going on to exhibit frequently at the RA summer exhibition. She moved to Cornwall in 1975 with her landscape painter husband Jeremy King (b.1933), and the pair shared a studio in St Just, Lands End. Her distinctively naive and playful style, often capturing incidental figures in quaint, pastoral British scenes, is said to have been strongly influenced by the oils and watercolours of Helen Bradley (1900-1979), another Lancastrian. If you are interested e-mail info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056 Condition: Generally excellent, original 1970s frame shows some wear. -
Anonymous
Oxford High Street (c.1840)
Pencil & wash on paper 18x23cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
David Loggan (1634-1692)
Aula Novi Hospitii
Engraving, 1675 25x36cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
David Loggan (1634-1692)
St Edmund Hall Oxford
Engraving (1675) 25x35cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
David Loggan (1634-1692)
Hart Hall Oxford, now Hertford College (Aula Cervinia)
Engraving (1675) 28x39cm 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. -
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. -
Robert Tavener (British) 1920 – 2004
Westminster Abbey (West Front) c.1970 Lithograph Signed in pencil ‘Robert Tavener’ and inscribed ‘Westminster Abbey (West Front)’ and numbered 45/50. £475 For other works by Robert Tavener and biographical details click here. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
David Loggan (1634-1692)
St Alban's Hall, Oxford
Engraving, 1675 25x35cm Now a part of Merton College 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. -
Reginald Hallward (1858-1948)
Sketch for window at St Etheldreda’s, Fulham
Pencil and gouache 12×7cm 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. -
Reginald Hallward (1858-1948)
Sketch for window in Earls Barton Church Northampton
Pencil and gouache 12×9.5cm 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. -
James Priddey (1916-1980) FRSA RBSA
Durham Cathedral Lithograph
27 x 36cm A Birmingham-based artist, educated at the Birmingham College of Art and a member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Priddey has a very distinctive style which he applies to his topographical watercolours. This striking view of Durham illustrates the city's river and cathedral. Condition: mounted to board. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Franz Weiss (1903-1982) German/American L'Allgäu
Original Vintage poster/Affiche francaise 84x59cm American-German illustrator and graphic designer, Weiss has captured this poster in an amusing and charming way. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. Few short edge tears, little spotting to top left. -
Alan Dashwood
Trinity Gateway Oxford (1914)
Watercolour 33.7×24.5cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
T B Miller St John's College, Oxford (1908)
Watercolour 35 x 25 cm Signed and dated 'after ? 1908' lower left and titled lower right in pencil (in artist's hand). Condition: generally very good; mounted to card. 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, Oxford. -
Henrik Bloch (born 1931)
Bakken in Wonderful Copenhagen (1965)
Original vintage poster 100 x 63 cm Bakken (short for Dyrehavsbakken) is the world's oldest amusement park, located just out of Copenhagen. This poster was designed to promote tourism to Copenhagen and Denmark more widely, and features a pierrot clown smiling above a happy crowd of Bakken visitors. Condition: generally very good; a few very short edge tears and a little soft creasing bottom right. Not backed. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more original vintage posters. -
"Zero" Hans Schleger (1898 - 1976)
Wait till it stops before getting on or off a bus or tram
Original vintage poster 76 x 49 cm Hans Schleger was born in Germany. After the First World War, he studied at the Berlin Kunstgewerbeschule. After working in Berlin, he moved to New York in 1924 and began to work as a graphic designer. He returned to Berlin in 1929 and began working for the British advertising agency Crawfords, where he met Edward McKnight Kauffer, who introduced him to Jack Beddington (the head of advertising at Shell Mex BP). He moved to London following the rise of Hitler and produced a series of posters for Shell Mex. During the Second World War he worked for the British Government. He later taught at the Chicago Institute of Design and subsequently designed the trademarks of the John Lewis Partnership, Penguin, Deutsche Bank, and the Edinburgh Festival. Condition: generally very good, the odd gentle crease; not backed. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage posters. -
Graham Bannister (born 1954)
A Venetian Canal
Screenprint 76 x 50 cm A screenprint of one of Venice's canals, crossed by an iron-railed bridge. Drying clothes hang from a canalside window as two moored gondolas bob gently. The stone buildings of Venice stretch up to the sky and are reflected back by the calm waters. Graham Bannister specialises in printmaking and trained at the Brillig Art Centre in Bath in the 1970s. He is known for his views of Venice's waterways. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more pictures of Italy. -
Margaret Souttar (1914 - 1987)
Emmanuel College, Cambridge Lion Rampant (1960)
Acrylic paint 74 x 50 cm Signed and dated lower right. Souttar was a Scottish painter and printmaker known for her images of town- and cityscapes. In the early 1960s, she was commissioned to produce a series of prints of the Cambridge colleges. She captures the modernity and optimism of 1960s Cambridge; the fact that a female artist was commissioned to create the prints reflects the changing attitudes of the University towards women. These views highlight the layers of history and architectural styles which make up a Cambridge college. Provenance: the artist's studio sale. Condition: generally very good; some crinkling as a result of using water-based paints on thin paper. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. -
S Clapham (active 1940 - 1960)
A Heraldic Primer
Gouache and pencil 53 x 67 cm A delightful, brightly-coloured study of the various elements of heraldic shields. Condition: good; a few short and neatly-repaired marginal tears. 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)
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)
St Oswald’s Church, Oswestry, Shropshire, Design for Stained Glass Window (2001)
Watercolour 28 x 27 cmSigned, dated and studio stamp verso.
St Oswald’s Church in Oswestry, Shropshire has been a place of worship for nearly 1000 years and commands a prominent position in the Town Centre. The church has a rich history, with William Morgan, who famously translated the whole Bible into Welsh, appointed Vicar of Oswestry in 1599, and the renowned Victorian architect G E Street substantially renovating the church between 1872-74. The church and town receive their names from Saint Oswald, the Christian King of Northumbria, who was killed at the Battle of Maserfield in 642 AD by the pagan King of Mercia, a mere 400 metres from the site of the present church. One of Oswald’s severed arms was allegedly snatched by a raven and dropped “a bowshot” away, causing a well to spring up that would be visited for centuries for healing and still exists today. The present-day name of Oswestry is a corruption of the original name Oswald’s Tree, which derives from Oswald's body being nailed to a tree in mock crucifixion. In Gray’s design, a large O fills the central four windows, a continuum (symbolising eternity) depicted at its centre, and a tree branching out across the central lights. Within them are also small roundels representing groups connected with Oswestry, including: Cambrian Railways, Round Table, Royal British Legion, Shropshire County Council, Oswestry Town Council, Rotary International, Lions International, Women’s Royal Voluntary Service, Orthopaedic Hospital, Royal Artillery, and Oswestry Borough Council. This window was installed and dedicated in 2004.
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale. Literature: Jane Gray, Playing with Rainbows. (Shropshire: Ellingham Press, 2011), pp.63, 88-9. 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)
Shrewsbury Abbey, Design for Stained Glass Window Dedicated to St Winefride (1990)
Watercolour 39 x 19 cmSigned, dated and studio stamp verso.
The red sandstone Abbey that resides over Shrewsbury is a welcoming landmark to visitors entering the town and dates back to the Norman era. Despite many renovations and alterations over the years, the medieval and Victorian elements marry remarkably naturally in this grand yet dignified place of worship. Shrewsbury abbey is home to several notable tombs and monuments as well as the remnants of a medieval shrine to St Winefride who was once venerated there. The central light at the top depicts the Trinity, where the Holy Spirit is represented by a dove, God by a vortex (left) and Christ by a lamb (right). The trinity remain linked throughout the design by a blue ribbon decorated with crosses and water droplets. St Winefride’s spiritual strength is represented by the large, central red cross, and her initial rests at its foot. In the left light, beneath the vortex, is corn, and to the right, grapes, both symbols uniting to form a timeless reference to the Eucharist. Below is the ship, a symbol of thee Ecumenical church, and on the right are seven doves representing the seven gifts of the holy spirit: wisdom, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord. Two small roundels with Alpha and Omega (‘I am the beginning and the end’ as God notes in the Book of Revelations) unify the upper and lower windows in the design. The central lower light depicts St Winefride, set against a starry backdrop, holding the Martyr’s Palm and Cross beneath her martyr’s crown. The water that is said to have spewed forth from her decapitated head is symbolically illustrated in the fountain at her feet that flows into the adjacent lights. Further symbols to Saint Winefride adorn both the left and right lights. The crossed keys and inverted cross (left light) represent Saint Peter, and the sword, book, and anchor rounded cross represent Saint Paul, the saints to whom Shrewsbury Abbey is dedicated. The window was installed in 1992.
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale. Literature: Jane Gray, Playing with Rainbows. (Shropshire: Ellingham Press, 2011), pp.47, 81. 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)
Christ Church, Charnock Richard, Lancashire, Design for Stained Glass Window (1988)
Watercolour 25.5 x 15.5 cm Signed, dated and studio stamp verso.Christ Church was built in 1860 at the heart of the 13th century country village of Charnock Richard. Alongside its stained glass windows, the church boasts historic tile work and an exceptional marble memorial to the original benefactor’s wife, Frances Darlington.
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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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. -
Keep It Dark (1939 - 1945)
Lithographic poster 25 x 31 cm Sponsored by Her Majesty's Stationery Office; printed by Perry Colourprint. A copy of this poster is held by the Imperial War Museum. This poster, bearing lyrics designed to be sung to the tune of "She'll be coming round the mountain", was designed for the Ministry of Information during the Second World War. It urges the population to avoid talking carelessly about details of Britain's operational movements, which might unwittingly end up in the wrong hands. Condition: good. Some small losses to extreme margins. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Oriel College, Oxford (1736)
Engraving 35 x 43 cm This fantasia on Oriel, featuring a sublime rendering of the College's architecture and a parade of sound Oriel men, was featured in the 1736 edition of 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 Michael Burghers, J. M. W. Turner, and John Piper. Basire and Dayes collaborated on several views of Oxford during the courses of their careers. Floreat Oriel! Condition: good. Trimmed. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more views of Oriel. -
James Basire II (1769 - 1822) after JMW Turner (1775 - 1851)
View of Exeter College, All Saints Church &c. from the Turl
Engraving 35 x 46 cm A view of Exeter College, Oxford from Turl Street. Labourers cobble the road. The spire of what was All Saints Church, now Lincoln College's library, overlooks the scene. Turner's drawing was reproduced as a lithograph in 1800, 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 Michael Burghers and John Piper. Basire and Dayes collaborated on several views of Oxford during the courses of their careers. Joseph Mallord William Turner RA, known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent, marine paintings. He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. He was championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. James Basire II was a British engraver, son of James Basire I, also a celebrated engraver. In 1802 he became Engraver to the Society of Antiquaries. Condition: trimmed within plate mark and mounted to paper. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Other views of Exeter College, Oxford are available here. -
Thomas William Camm (1839 – 1912)
Stained glass window design for an arched panel
Watercolour 7 x 13 cm Design for TW Camm & Co., Smethwick, Birmingham. Numbered 13080. From the Camm studio sale. The Camms were stained glass designers who exhibited 48 times at the Royal Academy and also exhibited at The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, The Royal Scottish Academy, and the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. Thomas William Camm's work was widely acclaimed, with his studio winning medals in Paris in 1878, in Sydney in 1879 and in Turin in 1911. In 1915, the American architect Ralph Adams Cram wrote that 'at the present moment a large number of artists in England are producing work of most singular beauty and perfection. Amongst these I have no hesitation in placing Mr. Camm easily as the first'. Following the death of her father, Florence Camm became the chief designer at TW Camm. Condition: very good; in oak frame. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
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Shmuel Shapiro (1924 - 1983) Two Lovers (1966)
Original lithograph on handmade Barcham Green paper 34 x 44 cm (sheet size 40 x 57 cm) Signed, dated, and numbered 75/100 in pencil. Published and printed at the Curwen Studio, London, in 1966. Shapiro was an American Jewish artist. This typically emotive but unusually colourful work conveys the passion that accompanies true love, with the green and orange forms pressing desperately against one another. An example of this lithograph is held in the Tate Gallery's permanent print collection. Provenance: acquired directly from the Curwen Archive. Condition: excellent. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
N. V. Gray
The Royal Wedding: Picture Map of the Route through London (1947)
Lithograph 50 x 76 cm Produced by H.A. & W.L. Pitkin Ltd for the Daily Telegraph and published by Geographia Ltd., of Hutchinson & Co. Signed in plate lower right. Complete with slip showing the genealogy of the two parties. Princess Elizabeth (later Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II) and Prince Philip married on Thursday 20th November 1947 at Westminster Abbey in London. This map, commissioned and sold by the Daily Telegraph newspaper, was designed by N. V. Gray. It depicts the route the carriage processions took on the way to the Abbey; Princess Elizabeth and her father King George Vi travelled in the magnificent Irish State Coach. Crests of London's boroughs border this delightfully coloured map. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Brendan Neiland (b.1941)
York Intercity Poster
Original Vintage Poster - lithograph 102x64cm (40×25 inches) each 1991 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. -
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Rousillon Original Poster for French National Railways SNCF (1969)
98 x 62 cm Lithographic posterThis is one example of the seven posters Surrealist painter Salvador Dali (1904-1989) designed for the French National Railways in the late 1960s and early 1970s - click here for the others.Condition: Generally very good - a little creasing to the very edges. -
Prof Sir Albert Richardson PRA Avioth La Recevresse
1960 Watercolour 29.5x20cm Signed with initials and dated lower left Avioth is in the Meuse region of France, on the Belgian border. The city was founded in the twelfth century, when a villager miraculously found a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary in a thorn bush. A chapel built on the site soon became a place of pilgrimage and the church on the site - dedicated to Notre Dame - was created a Basilica by Pope John Paul II in 1983. Beside the Basilica stands the Recevresse, a piece of stone lacework. Its original function is unknown; it was more recently a place where pilgrims' offerings were received. It was registered as a historical monument in 1840 by the French authorities. Sir Albert Edward Richardson K.C.V.O., F.R.I.B.A, F.S.A., P.R.A. (1880-1964) was a traditionalist, renowned for his distaste of modern architecture. Rooted firmly in the classical period, he lived a Georgian life, refusing to have electricity in his Georgian house – until his wife finally insisted. Professor of Architecture at UCL’s Bartlett School of Architecture from 1929-1955, this was evacuated to Cambridge during the war and he became a fellow of St Catharine’s College. Amongst his other achievements, Richardson was President of the RA, editor of Architect’s Journal and founder of the Georgian Group. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Clifford Ellis (1907-1985) Snow Laden Branch
44.5x51cm Watercolour and Pen Provenance: the family of the artist, by descent.Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. Clifford and Rosemary Ellis were famous as a husband and wife team for their fascination with nature and their vibrant and charming depictions of animals. They were the natural artists to be commissioned by Collins for their ‘New Naturalists’ series of books, which have become famous and highly collectable more for the dust jackets designed by the Ellises than for the – otherwise excellent – content. This painting is from a recently discovered series of paintings and drawings, never before seen by the general public, dating from the 1940s and 1950s. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally very Good. -
Clifford Ellis (1907-1985) Sheep
18x18cm Charcoal Provenance: the family of the artist, by descent.Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. Clifford and Rosemary Ellis were famous as a husband and wife team for their fascination with nature and their vibrant and charming depictions of animals. They were the natural artists to be commissioned by Collins for their ‘New Naturalists’ series of books, which have become famous and highly collectable more for the dust jackets designed by the Ellises than for the – otherwise excellent – content. This painting is from a recently discovered series of paintings and drawings, never before seen by the general public, dating from the 1940s and 1950s. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally very Good. -
Leslie Arthur Wilcox RI RSMA (1904-1982) National Savings - Make Sure Your Ship Comes In
c.1945 75x50cm Original Vintage Poster During World War 2, the British Government had two particular financial problems addressed by this poster. There was little to buy, so the general populace had surplus cash to spend. If they spent it, this would be inflationary and would reduce the supply of items. Likewise, the Government needed money to spend on materiel and was short of cash. Encouraging the population to lend its spare cash to the Government was therefore a solution to this problem, and a series of posters - and other advertisings campaigns - aimed to address this point. 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. Condition: Good. A few tiny tears to margin, not into image. -
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Auvergne
Original Poster for French Railways SNCF 100x60cm Printed by Draeger Printed in France for and by the French National Railways, 1970 Signed and dated in the plate 1969 From the Butterfly series. Condition: Generally excellent condition; slight age toning to edges of poster. -
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Normandy - Normandie
Original Poster for French Railways SNCF 100x60cm Printed by Draeger Printed in France for and by the French National Railways, 1970 Signed and dated in the plate 1969 From the Butterfly series. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally excellent condition; slight age toning to edges of poster. -
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Alsace
Original Poster for French Railways SNCF 100x60cm Printed by Draeger Printed in France for and by the French National Railways, 1970 Signed and dated in the plate 1969 If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally excellent condition; slight age toning to edges of poster. -
Robert Bonfils (French: 1886-1972) Design for scarf for Bianchini Ferrier
'Haiti' 66x50cm Gouache and pencil Provenance: Christies, 25-27 July 2001 Bianchini Textiles sale Born in Paris, Bonfils spent between 1903-1909 at various Parisian art schools: the École Germain Pilon, the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (where he subsequently taught for thirty-two years), and the École des Beaux Arts. From 1909 he exhibited regularly at the Salon d'Automne, by 1912 he was exhibiting at Salon des Artistes Décorateurs and then subsequently at Tuileries and abroad. He was an organiser of the 1925 Paris International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts, and the 1937 Exposition. His relationship with Bianchini commenced in 1915 who produced many of his textile designs. He was made Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1926, being promoted to Officier in 1938. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition; Good. -
Robert Bonfils (French: 1886-1972) Design for scarf for Bianchini Ferrier
No.332 Goyescas 65x50cm Gouache and pencil Provenance: Christies, 25-27 July 2001 Bianchini Textiles sale Born in Paris, Bonfils spent between 1903-1909 at various Parisian art schools: the École Germain Pilon, the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (where he subsequently taught for thirty-two years), and the École des Beaux Arts. From 1909 he exhibited regularly at the Salon d'Automne, by 1912 he was exhibiting at Salon des Artistes Décorateurs and then subsequently at Tuileries and abroad. He was an organiser of the 1925 Paris International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts, and the 1937 Exposition. His relationship with Bianchini commenced in 1915 who produced many of his textile designs. He was made Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1926, being promoted to Officier in 1938. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition; Good. -
Frederick Nash (1782-1856) Drawn and etched Engraved by F C Lewis North East View of St George's Chapel, Windsor
To the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Norwich and Dean of Windsor London Published by F Nash, No 6 Asylum Buildings, Westminster Road July 12 1804 55x40cm Frederick Nash was born in Lambeth. Initially studying architectural drawing under Thomas Malton he subsequently enrolled at the Royal Academy of Arts. From 1801 to 1809 he worked with the antiquarians John Britton and Edward Wedlake Brayley, subsequently becoming a member of the Society of Painters in Watercolours - a group of painters who had left the Royal Academy following complaints of under-recognition of their works. Latterly primarily a landscape painter he toured the rivers of Germany. Prints from this series are in the British Museum and also in the collection of Anglesea Abbey, a National Trust property outside Cambridge, England, with a very large collection of views of Windsor Castle. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: A good impression In generally very good condition. Not trimmed. -
Frederick Nash (1782-1856) Drawn and etched Engraved by F C Lewis West Front of St George's Chapel, Windsor
To the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Norwich and Dean of Windsor London Published by F Nash, No 6 Asylum Buildings, Westminster Road July 12 1804 55x40cm Frederick Nash was born in Lambeth. Initially studying architectural drawing under Thomas Malton he subsequently enrolled at the Royal Academy of Arts. From 1801 to 1809 he worked with the antiquarians John Britton and Edward Wedlake Brayley, subsequently becoming a member of the Society of Painters in Watercolours - a group of painters who had left the Royal Academy following complaints of under-recognition of their works. Latterly primarily a landscape painter he toured the rivers of Germany. Prints from this series are in the British Museum and also in the collection of Anglesea Abbey, a National Trust property outside Cambridge, England, with a very large collection of views of Windsor Castle. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: A good impression In generally very good condition. Not trimmed. -
Clifford Ellis (1907-1985) William the Pug - on the Table
36x25cm including frame 17x17cm excluding frame Pencil sketch Provenance: the family of the artist, by descent. Born in Bognor in Sussex and trained at St Martin’s School of Art and Regent Street Polytechnic, Ellis was a graphic artist and illustrator who is best known for the posters he produced for London Transport during the 1930s. He generally collaborated with his wife Rosemary – whom he married in 1931 – on their posters. The General Post Office, Shell, and The Empire Marketing Board were also clients for their posters. They signed their posters C&RE, their initials being in alphabetical order and they are readily recognisable by their ebullient use of colour and form. Employed during the war as a camoufleur, along with so many other artists, Clifford was also an official war artist, serving with the Grenadier Guards. Rosemary, meanwhile, was an artist for the Recording Britain project. Following the war they trained art teachers at Bath Academy of Art. They also designed a series of nearly one hundred book jackets for Collins New Naturalist series, published between 1945 and 1982 and were always fascinated by animals and natural history, as with this sketch. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. In hand-finished Nicholson butt-jointed frame. Some toning to paper. -
Clifford Ellis (1907-1985) William the Pug - facing right
31x36cm including frame 13x19cm excluding frame Pencil sketch Provenance: the family of the artist, by descent. Born in Bognor in Sussex and trained at St Martin’s School of Art and Regent Street Polytechnic, Ellis was a graphic artist and illustrator who is best known for the posters he produced for London Transport during the 1930s. He generally collaborated with his wife Rosemary – whom he married in 1931 – on their posters. The General Post Office, Shell, and The Empire Marketing Board were also clients for their posters. They signed their posters C&RE, their initials being in alphabetical order and they are readily recognisable by their ebullient use of colour and form. Employed during the war as a camoufleur, along with so many other artists, Clifford was also an official war artist, serving with the Grenadier Guards. Rosemary, meanwhile, was an artist for the Recording Britain project. Following the war they trained art teachers at Bath Academy of Art. They also designed a series of nearly one hundred book jackets for Collins New Naturalist series, published between 1945 and 1982 and were always fascinated by animals and natural history, as with this sketch. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. In hand-finished Nicholson butt-jointed frame. -
Attributed to Joseph Murray Ince (1806-1859) Outside Welsh Border Cottage - Winter
Watercolour 10.5x17.5cm Brought up in Radnorshire, in the Welsh Borders, Ince studied under David Cox from 1823-1826, and then exhibited at the Royal Academy. He was a drawing master at Cambridge University during the 1830s, during which period he painted many views of the Colleges of both Oxford and Cambridge, returning to Radnorshire in 1835. His works are in the collections of major galleries including the Tate, The V&A and The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Click to view other works by Ince. -
Joseph Murray Ince (1806-1859) Outside Welsh Border Cottage - Summer
Watercolour 10.5x17.5cm Provenance (label to reverse) Fine Art Society 1971 Signed lower right 'J M Ince 1827' Brought up in Radnorshire, in the Welsh Borders, Ince studied under David Cox from 1823-1826, and then exhibited at the Royal Academy. He was a drawing master at Cambridge University during the 1830s, during which period he painted many views of the Colleges of both Oxford and Cambridge, returning to Radnorshire in 1835. His works are in the collections of major galleries including the Tate, The V&A and The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. -
Louis Osman (1914-1996)
A £350 Modernist House Weekend Cottage - Architectural drawing
75x52cm Watercolour and pencil Inscribed Provenance: from the artist's estate Click for biographical details and other works by Osman. From Osman's time as an architectural student at the Bartlett School of Architecture. The examiner has graded the piece to the face. Osman was even more an artist than an architect, which shows with the quality of the shading and calligraphy. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Louis Osman (1914-1996)
Lincoln Cathedral Architectural Design
45x55cm Pen and ink with wash and heightening in white Signed 'Louis Osman BA (Hons) FRIBA' and inscribed 'Lincoln Cathedral' lower right Dated Nov. 1960 Provenance: from the artist's estate Click for biographical details and other works by Osman. Osman worked on Lincoln Cathedral, amongst other cathedrals. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Louis Osman (1914-1996)
Thomas Lumley Architectural Design ii
45x55cm Pen and ink with wash and heightening in white Provenance: from the artist's estate Click for biographical details and other works by Osman. Lumley Castle was built in 1389 and today is a four star hotel that belongs to the Earl of Scarborough. Thomas Lumley was an eighteenth century soldier and statesman, and the third Earl of Scarborough. -
Clifford Ellis (1907-1985)
Chico the Red Panda
Pencil, 1950s 16x30cm In a Nicholson butt-jointed frame Provenance: the family of the artist, by descent. Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. Clifford and Rosemary Ellis were famous as a husband and wife team for their fascination with nature and their vibrant and charming depictions of animals. They were the natural artists to be commissioned by Collins for their 'New Naturalists' series of books, which have become famous and highly collectable more for the dust jackets designed by the Ellises than for the - otherwise excellent - content. This painting is from a recently discovered series of paintings and drawings, never before seen by the general public, dating from the 1940s and 1950s. Clifford and Rosemary wrote a series of illustrated books for young children including this one featuring Chico. Although never published they are now held by the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Clifford Ellis (1907-1985)
Bufo the Toad
Pencil, 1950s 11x14cm In a Nicholson butt-jointed frame Provenance: the family of the artist, by descent. Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. Clifford and Rosemary Ellis were famous as a husband and wife team for their fascination with nature and their vibrant and charming depictions of animals. They were the natural artists to be commissioned by Collins for their 'New Naturalists' series of books, which have become famous and highly collectable more for the dust jackets designed by the Ellises than for the - otherwise excellent - content. This painting is from a recently discovered series of paintings and drawings, never before seen by the general public, dating from the 1940s and 1950s. "Old Bufo is the biggest Toad. He is very tame and always knows that when I make a special scratching noise he will get fed." Clifford and Rosemary wrote a series of illustrated books for young children including this one featuring Bufo. Although never published they are now held by the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Clifford Ellis (1907-1985)
Deer I
Pencil, 1940s/1950s 12x20cm In a Nicholson butt-jointed frame Provenance: the family of the artist, by descent. Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. Clifford and Rosemary Ellis were famous as a husband and wife team for their fascination with nature and their vibrant and charming depictions of animals. They were the natural artists to be commissioned by Collins for their 'New Naturalists' series of books, which have become famous and highly collectable more for the dust jackets designed by the Ellises than for the - otherwise excellent - content. This painting is from a recently discovered series of paintings and drawings, never before seen by the general public, dating from the 1940s and 1950s. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Frederick Nash (1782-1856) Drawn and etched
Engraved by F C LewisSouth East View of St George's Chapel, Windsor
To the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Exeter London Published by F Nash, No 6 Asylum Buildings, Westminster Road July 12 1804 39.5x52cm Frederick Nash was born in Lambeth. Initially studying architectural drawing under Thomas Malton he subsequently enrolled at the Royal Academy of Arts. From 1801 to 1809 he worked with the antiquarians John Britton and Edward Wedlake Brayley, subsequently becoming a member of the Society of Painters in Watercolours - a group of painters who had left the Royal Academy following complaints of under-recognition of their works. Latterly primarily a landscape painter he toured the rivers of Germany. -
Frederick Nash (1782-1856) Drawn and etched
Engraved by F C LewisSouth East View of St George's Chapel, Windsor
To the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Exeter London Published by F Nash, No 6 Asylum Buildings, Westminster Road July 12 1804 39.5x52cm Frederick Nash was born in Lambeth. Initially studying architectural drawing under Thomas Malton he subsequently enrolled at the Royal Academy of Arts. From 1801 to 1809 he worked with the antiquarians John Britton and Edward Wedlake Brayley, subsequently becoming a member of the Society of Painters in Watercolours - a group of painters who had left the Royal Academy following complaints of under-recognition of their works. Latterly primarily a landscape painter he toured the rivers of Germany. -
Frederick Nash (1782-1856) Drawn and etched
Engraved by F C LewisSouth West View of St George's Chapel, Windsor
To the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Exeter London Published by F Nash, No 6 Asylum Buildings, Westminster Road July 12 1804 39.5x52cm Frederick Nash was born in Lambeth. Initially studying architectural drawing under Thomas Malton he subsequently enrolled at the Royal Academy of Arts. From 1801 to 1809 he worked with the antiquarians John Britton and Edward Wedlake Brayley, subsequently becoming a member of the Society of Painters in Watercolours - a group of painters who had left the Royal Academy following complaints of under-recognition of their works. Latterly primarily a landscape painter he toured the rivers of Germany. -
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Paris, France - French Railways
Lithographic poster 101 x 63.5 cm For French Railways SNCF Printed by Draeger Printed in France for and by the French National Railways, 1970 Signed and dated in the stone 1969 Generally very good; occasional slight browning to the very edges -
Jean Brian (1910-90)
X Jeux Olympiques d'Hiver (1968 Winter Olympics Grenoble France)
1968 Lithographic poster 95.1x 63.4cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
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Hugo Schol (Swiss, 20th Century)
Furka Oberalp
Lithographic poster (1959) Brig-Gletsch-Andermatt-Disentis *Schweiz*Suisse*Switzerland 20x12.5" An arresting scene of the Furka Oberalp Bahn/Railway by one of the best Swiss poster artists of the period. Here in a conveniently small size, the red of the train contrasts with the vivid colours of the Alps. -
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. -
Florence Camm (1874-1960)
Christ's College Cambridge Crest
Pencil and watercolour 15x11cm Design for TW Camm & Co. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Florence Camm (1874-1960)
Valley of the Shadow of Death Stained Glass Window Design for Wrekin College (1936)
Watercolour 9x6cm Design for TW Camm & Co., Smethwick, Birmingham. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Sir Hugh Casson (1910-1999)
Oriel College Oxford
Lithographic print signed in pencil and numbered 1/500. Provenance: the artist's estate. 28 x 35 cm (11 x 14 in) From Casson's ever-popular Oxford series of prints. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here to see other posters from this series and for more information on Wings for Victory campaigns. -
Anon.
Join the Regular Army: A Skilled Trade
Lithographic poster c. 1950s. Framed in a hand-finished black frame 75x50cm Army recruitment poster produced for the War Office. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Leo Vernon
West Africa (British Empire 1948)
Printed by J.Howitt & Son Ltd Lithographic poster 20×30 inches If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056 -
Owen Miller (1907-1960)
They all save for the future, you too can save through National Savings
Owen Miller (1907-1960) They all save for the future, you too can save through National Savings Lithographic poster 76.2 x x 50.8 cm Printed for HMSO by Fosh & Cross circa 1950. A fantastic original lithographic poster advertising the National Savings scheme. Born in Auckland and educated at Wellington College, Miller worked as an artist in New Zealand. His illustrations often appeared in Wellington newspapers. He found life difficult in New Zealand during the Depression, and eventually signed on to a boat as a deckhand, working his passage to the UK. When he arrived at the Port of London, he had only £5 to his name. His first job was an illustrator for J Lyons & Co; his greatest work there was to decorate the directors’ dining room as an aircraft interior. When the Second World War began, Miller started work for the Ministry of Aircraft Production. Following the war, Collins produced several posters advertising National Savings. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Hilary Hennes (née Hilary Miller) (1919-1993)
Cat Sleeping (c.1940)
37 x 25 cm Pen, ink and gouache on paper 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, Miller taught at the South East Sussex Technical College and in 1946 married the artist Hubert Hennes. The couple set up home 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. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056 Condition: Very good -
Claude Muncaster
Landscape with Harvest Field and Cottage
Pen and watercolour 22x29cm Provenance: Martin Muncaster, the artist's son. 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. -
Birth of a Lancaster
Original Silver Gelatin photograph, 1942 19 x 25 cm Stamped to reverse "Topical Press Agency Limited, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street London" and (partially obscured) "Certified by Topical Press Agency as passed by censor" "The Avro Lancaster - the fastest and greatest load carrier of all the world's heavy bombers, and scourge of the Germans from Cologne to Gdynia, Rostock to Augsburg near Munich, is now being produced so speedily that fresh squadrons are being equipped weekly, and nightly spread terror and destruction through the German industrial centres. "Photo shown: a girl inspector goes over every detail of fitting work in the bomber's nose. She is occupying the position that the bomb aimer will take on operational work. Every small part of the plane has undergone stringent inspection. "Ref number Y7119 Topical Press 2/9/42" There is nothing new in the world, a pretty girl always captures the attention of the photographer. In war-torn Britain, of course, the contribution of women to the war effort was hugely important, replacing men in factories so that the men could go off to war. Provenance: from the collection of Philip J R Moyes, author of many books on the RAF, most notably The Pictorial History which ran to several volumes. Condition: mostly good. -
J V C Anthony
Great Court, Trinity College, Cambridge
Pen, ink and watercolour 37x56cm Latter half of twentieth century If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
J V C Anthony (British, 20th Century)
St. John's College, Cambridge
Watercolour 55 x 37 cm (21.5 x 14.5 in.) Anthony exhibited with the Society of Marine Artists and painted a number of views of Cambridge. Click here to see other works by him. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
J V C Anthony
Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge
Watercolour and ink 39x49cm Anthony exhibited with the Society of Marine Artists and painted a number of views of Cambridge. Click here to see other works by him. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Anonymous
Rags Every bit of rag still urgently required
WW2 British Home Front Poster 75x49cm Lithograph in four colours If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Jane Gray (b.1931)
The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries, Design for Stained Glass Millennium Window (1999)
Watercolour 25 x 13.5 cmSigned.
The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries was founded in 1617, after breaking away from the Grocers’ Company (founded 1345). The Society were granted a royal charter by James I, and, throughout the remainder of the 17th century, challenged the College of Physicians monopoly on practicing medicine. In 1704, the House of Lords overturned a ruling of the Queen’s Bench that gave apothecaries the right to practice medicine. Apothecaries, therefore, may be viewed as the forerunners of present-day general (medical) practitioners or family physicians. Gray’s design for this 2000 memorial window, in the Apothecaries Hall in Blackfriars, London, features the names and illustrations of several medicinal plants, including Belladonna, Opium, Digitalis, Oenothara, Primrose, Cowslip, Nasturtium, Camomile, and Marigold.
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, Tunworth, Hampshire, Design for Stained Glass Memorial Window for the Hon. Julian Berry OBE, DL, JP, Colonel of the Royal Horse Guards (The Blues) (1992)
Watercolour 28 x 30 cm Signed, dated and studio stamp verso.All Saints Church is a Norman church, built in the 12th century, and lies nestled in the downland of the Tunworth Downs, Hampshire. Colonel Julian Berry (1920-1988), son of the 1st Viscount Camrose of Hackwood Park, is notably buried in the churchyard, and his death is commemorated in Gray’s stained glass window design, featuring items of military ceremonial dress set against a night sky accompanied by the line from John 1:1, ‘In the beginning was the word’. The window was installed in 1992.
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale. Literature: Jane Gray, Playing with Rainbows. (Shropshire: Ellingham Press, 2011), p.81. 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. -
Henry Cliffe (1919-1983) Standing Nude II
Etching Mid 20th Century 23x15cm Click here for biographical details and other pictures by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Henry Cliffe (1919-1983) Standing Nude
Etching Mid 20th Century 23x15cm Click here for biographical details and other pictures by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Hugo Wetli (1916-1972) Nordwest-Schweiz North-West Switzerland La Suisse du Nord-Ouest
Original Poster c. 1960s If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent. -
Hugo Wetli (1916-1972) Ticino - Come and Paint Ticino Contest for your holidays 1964
Original Poster 1964 If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent. -
Hugo Wetli (1916-1972) Autumn on Lake Geneva Herbst am Genfersee Douceur automnale du Léman
Original Poster c. 1960s 40x25" If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Pinholes to corners, some soft creases, not backed, generally good. -
Hugo Wetli (1916-1972) Spring on Lake Lucerne Fruhling am Vierwalkstaettersee Printemps au lac des Quatre-Cantons Primavera sul Lago dei Quattro Caontoni Lago de Lucerna
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Hugh Casson (1910 - 1999)
Caius Court, Gonville and Caius College (1992)
Lithograph 31 x 44 cm Signed and numbered 358/500, both in pencil. Casson's depiction of Gonville and Caius, with sun slanting into the 16th-century Caius Court. Members of the college stroll through the court. Sir Hugh Casson was educated at Eastbourne College; St John’s College, Cambridge; and the Bartlett School of Architecture. Trained in the 1930s in the early modernist style, he taught at the Cambridge School of Architecture. After employment as a camoufleur during World War 2 by the Air Ministry, in 1948 he was appointed as director of architecture for the Festival of Britain. A close friend of the Royal Family, he undertook designs for the 1953 coronation, designed the interior of the Royal Yacht Britannia (“The overall idea was to give the impression of a country house at sea”), and taught the young Charles III to paint in watercolours. Amongst his architectural achievements are the Elephant House at London Zoo, the 1978 redevelopment of Bristol Docks, the Raised Faculty Building for The University of Cambridge, and a building for the Royal College of Art. He published a number of illustrated books, of which Casson’s Oxford and Casson’s Cambridge are probably the best known. A limited edition series of prints was produced from the paintings. 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 Gonville and Caius, Cambridge. -
Anonymous Milan Trade Fair 1975
Original Vintage Poster 98x61cm A cool poster design from Italy, that home of mid-century modern design. We have been unable to trace any other copy of this poster; it is quite possibly the sole survivor. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Some gentle creasing, generally good condition. -
Reginald Hallward Grapevine Altar Cloth Design
Reginald Hallward Grapevine Altar Cloth Design Watercolour and pencil 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. -
Michael Angelo Rooker (1743/6 - 1801)
Magdalen College from the North Side of the First Quadrangle (1778)
Engraving 32.5 x 46 cm A copy of this print is held by the Wellcome Collection. 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 Michael Burghers, J. M. W. Turner, and John Piper. Basire and Dayes collaborated on several views of Oxford during the courses of their careers. Michael Angelo Rooker ARA was an English oil and watercolour painter of architecture and landscapes, illustrator, and engraver. Condition: generally good. Later hand colouring. From an entire Almanac page, cut down. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Magdalen College, Oxford. -
The French Alps - To See France, Go by Train (1966)
Original vintage poster 100 x 66 cm This French Railways poster encourages tourism to the French Alps, where the railway views are (and always have been) particularly charming. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage travel posters. -
Leslie Carr (1891 - 1969)
1440 Great Northern Railway (1910)
Pen and ink 19 x 41 cm Signed and dated lower right. The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company incorporated in 1846 with the object of building a line from London to York. Although many local lines have been closed, much of the network remains active today. Leslie Carr was a painter and poster designer from London. He served in the Tank Corps in the First World War and then became a professional artist, mainly producing maritime and architectural scenes. He designed posters for Southern Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, and British Railways (among others). Carr served as a fireman in the Second World War and was a part of several firemen artists' exhibitions. Carr was a member of the Society of Marine Artists. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other pictures by the artist. -
Reginald Hallward (1858 - 1948)
Stained glass memorial design for Chelford Church
Pencil and gouache 12 x 7 cm With pencil annotations by the artist. Reginald Hallward was born on the Isle of Wight, and was a painter, poet, glassmaker and book designer. He is best known for his stained glass window designs and the tempera murals he painted in several churches. A great exponent of the English Arts and Crafts movement, he often used black paint for outlines, rather than leaded glass. A consumate craftsman, he insisted on painting, firing and leading with his own hands. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other pictures by Reginald Hallward. -
Reginald Hallward (1858 - 1948)
Stained glass window design for St Etheldreda's, Fulham
Pencil and gouache 12 x 7 cm With pencil annotations by the artist. Hallward's design for a stained glass window thanking St Etheldreda's Church for its support of soldiers stationed in Fulham during the First World War. Reginald Hallward was born on the Isle of Wight, and was a painter, poet, glassmaker and book designer. He is best known for his stained glass window designs and the tempera murals he painted in several churches. A great exponent of the English Arts and Crafts movement, he often used black paint for outlines, rather than leaded glass. A consumate craftsman, he insisted on painting, firing and leading with his own hands. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other pictures by Reginald Hallward. -
Reginald Hallward (1858 - 1948)
Design for a church wall painting (1904)
Pencil and watercolour on paper 6 x 12 cm With pencil annotations by the artist. A romantic design for a wall painting above a church organ, featuring angels variously reading, singing, and playing the lute. Reginald Hallward was born on the Isle of Wight, and was a painter, poet, glassmaker and book designer. He is best known for his stained glass window designs and the tempera murals he painted in several churches. A great exponent of the English Arts and Crafts movement, he often used black paint for outlines, rather than leaded glass. A consumate craftsman, he insisted on painting, firing and leading with his own hands. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other pictures by Reginald Hallward. -
David Roberts (1769 - 1864)
Citadel of Sidon - April 28th, 1839 (published 1943)
Lithograph with hand-colouring 23 x 35 cm (sheet size 17.5 x 24.5 cm) The Citadel of Sidon, or Sidon Sea Castle, was built by crusaders in the thirteenth century as a fortress of the holy land. This lithograph is part of David Roberts' series of views of the Holy Land, which he produced from sketches made during lengthy tours of the Near East in the 1830s. Egypt was much in vogue at this time, and travellers, collectors and lovers of antiquities were keen to buy works inspired by the East or depicting the great monuments of ancient Egypt; Roberts was more than happy to produce pictures on this lucrative theme. Queen Victoria was one of his 400 subscribers, and her set of lithographs is still held by the Royal Collection Trust. The lithographer Louis Haghe worked with Roberts to turn the original sketches into high-quality lithographs, which were then published in the 1840s by the printer F. G. Moon in London. David Roberts RA RBA was a Scottish painter known for his Orientalist pictures. He was elected as a Royal Academician in 1841. -
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. -
Jane Gray (b.1931)
St Paul’s Church, Warwick, Design for One of Two Stained Glass Windows (1991)
Watercolour 27.5 x 5 cmSigned, dated and studio stamp verso.
Rapid population expansion in Warwick in the early 1800s, due to the opening of the canal and industrialisation, saw the churchyards of St Mary and St Nicholas unable to cope. In 1823 both churches petitioned the Bishop of Worcester for extra burial space, but it wasn’t until 1918 that the Coventry diocese was finally created. A cemetery and chapel, known as St Mary’s Episcopal Chapel were built in 1824 on the site where St Paul’s sits today but was used exclusively for burials. In 1844 the Parish of St Paul's was formed and the church was consecrated on 26th July 1844 by the Bishop of Worcester. This window was installed in 1992.
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale. Literature: Jane Gray, Playing with Rainbows. (Shropshire: Ellingham Press, 2011), p.81. 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 Paul’s Church, Warwick, Design for One of Two Stained Glass Windows (1991)
Watercolour 27.5 x 5 cmStudio stamp and notes in artist's hand verso.
Rapid population expansion in Warwick in the early 1800s, due to the opening of the canal and industrialisation, saw the churchyards of St Mary and St Nicholas unable to cope. In 1823 both churches petitioned the Bishop of Worcester for extra burial space, but it wasn’t until 1918 that the Coventry diocese was finally created. A cemetery and chapel, known as St Mary’s Episcopal Chapel were built in 1824 on the site where St Paul’s sits today but was used exclusively for burials. In 1844 the Parish of St Paul's was formed and the church was consecrated on 26th July 1844 by the Bishop of Worcester. This window was installed in 1992.
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale. Literature: Jane Gray, Playing with Rainbows. (Shropshire: Ellingham Press, 2011), p.81. 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 the Worshipful Company of Launderers, Design for Stained Glass Window (1985)
Watercolour 12.5 x 13.5 cmDated and detailed in artist's hand with studio label verso.
This window was commissioned by the Worshipful Company of Launderers to oversee their banqueting hall (which belongs to the Worshipful Company of Glaziers, of which Gray was the first female member). Besides the traditional symbols of aprons, irons, and mangles, Gray’s design also humorously includes a white cat licking itself clean. Alongside this window, Gray also designed a roundel containing the Company’s Arms.
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale. Literature: Jane Gray, Playing with Rainbows. (Shropshire: Ellingham Press, 2011), p.39. 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)
Writtle Church, Essex, Design for Stained Glass Window (1989)
Watercolour 23 x 12.5 cmSigned, dated and studio stamp verso.
All Saints Church in Writtle, Essex has stood at the heart of the ancient manor of Writtle for over one thousand years and dates back to the early 13th century, although, a Saxon church likely existed on the site prior to this. The living of Writtle church was handed over in 1399 to the Warden and Fellows of New College Oxford in whose patronage the church has remained to this day. This window design features the Arms of Baroness Platt of Writtle linked with those of Guglielmo Marconi as well as the phoenix, and three fishes of Trinity. The window was installed in 1992.
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale. Literature: Jane Gray, Playing with Rainbows. (Shropshire: Ellingham Press, 2011), p.81. 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 Mary the Virgin, Ebony, Tenterden, Design for Stained Glass Window (1983)
Watercolour 15.5 x 10 cmDated in artist's hand and artist label verso.
Worship at Ebony has taken place for some one thousand years but St Mary the Virgin Church, as it exists today, was not built until 1858. A church had previously existed on the island of Ebony where, standing 30 metres above sea level and visible for miles around, it provided a prominent landmark to ships coming up the sea creek. This church, however, was devastated by a fire in the 16th century, and from its ruins, a much smaller church, built in a simple rectangle of Kentish ragstone, was erected, serving the parish until 1858. In this year, the church was taken down, stone by stone, and moved to the nearby hamlet of Reading Street where it stands today. Gray’s design centres on the Anunciation, featuring the figures of Mary and Gabriel, and was installed in the church in 1984.
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale. Literature: Jane Gray, Playing with Rainbows. (Shropshire: Ellingham Press, 2011), p.78. 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 Mary’s Church, Bushbury, Wolverhampton, Design for Stained Glass Window (1989)
Watercolour 23 x 13.5 cmSigned, dated and studio stamp verso.
St Mary’s Church was built in the mid 14th century but underwent substantial renovations in the 19th century to the designs of Wolverhampton architect, Edward Banks with advice from the notable, Sir Gilbert Scott. St Mary’s is thought to have inspired the church at ‘M’ visited by Borrow and the Petulengroes in Chapter VIII of George Borrow’s 1857 novel, The Romany Rye. One of Gray’s most interesting and beautiful designs, this stained glass window demonstrates the artist’s distinctly modern approach, capturing something of her artistic predecessor, Hilma af Klint’s characteristic geometric style and colour palette.
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)
Holy Trinity Church, Weston Lullingfields, Shropshire, Design for Stained Glass Window (1990)
Watercolour 26 x 15.5 cmSigned, dated and studio stamp verso.
Holy Trinity Church in Weston Lullingfields was built in 1857 by the late Miss Barrett, of Prescott to join the expanding development of Weston Wharf. However, with the advent of the Railway in nearby Baschurch, the canal fell into disuse and plans for major expansion of the village declined. The church is built in the Early English style and houses a rare Hilditch organ.
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 Paul’s Church, Marton, Design for Stained Glass Window (1984)
Watercolour 25.5 x 14 cmSigned, dated and artist label verso.
Worship at Marton, a township-chapelry in Poulton-le-Fylde parish, Lancashire, began in 1760 but it wasn’t until 1800 that Marton got it’s own church dedicated to St Paul. Gray’s vibrant design for the church’s south wall window depicts the stages of creation against a swirling night sky and features the biblical line, ‘and God saw that it was good’, from Genesis 1:31. This design fantastically demonstrates Gray’s modernist style, with her simple yet detailed, geometrical delineation of her subjects.
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)
Mount Vernon Hospital, Design for Stained Glass Window (1982)
Watercolour 10.5 x 20 cmDated and artist label verso.
Mount Vernon Hospital is located in Northwood, in north-west Greater London and was founded as The North London Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest in a mansion on Hampstead High Street in 1860. A purpose-built but beautiful hospital at Mount Vernon was built in 1881 in the French Renaissance style but in 1901, it was decided to build a more-modern facility on part of the Northwood Park Estate which was opened in 1904.
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. -
Pieter van den Keere (1571 - circa 1646) after John Speed (1551 or 1552 - 1629)
Map of Cambridgeshire (1627)
Engraving 8 x 12 cm A beautifully coloured map of Cambridgeshire, with an antique description of the county to the reverse. The map, along with many others, was published in Speed's atlas, 'The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine', first published in 1611. This particular miniature edition of the 'Theatre' was published in miniature by George Humble in 1627, entitled 'England Wales Scotland and Ireland Described and Abridged With ye Historic Relation of things worthy memory from a farr larger Voulume. Done by John Speed.’ Speed's original map was likely engraved for this edition by Peter van den Keere. van den Keere's maps soon came to be known as "Miniature Speeds". John Speed was an English cartographer, chronologer and historian. The son of a citizen and Merchant Taylor in London, he rose from his family occupation to accept the task of drawing together and revising the histories, topographies and maps of the Kingdoms of Great Britain as an exposition of the union of their monarchies in the person of King James I and VI. He accomplished this with remarkable success, with the support and assistance of the leading antiquarian scholars of his generation. He drew upon and improved the shire maps of Christopher Saxton, John Norden and others, being the first to incorporate the hundred-boundaries into them, and he was the surveyor and originator of many of the town or city plans inset within them. His work helped to define early modern concepts of British national identity. His Biblical genealogies were also formally associated with the first edition of the King James Bible. He is among the most famous of English mapmakers. George Humble (1572 - 1640) was an English publisher, known for his publication of John Speed's 'The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine,' the first comprehensive atlas depicting the British Isles, and his later 'A prospect of the most famous parts of the World,' the first English world atlas. Pieter van den Keere was a Flemish engraver, publisher, and globe maker who worked in England and the Dutch Republic. Condition: generally very good; some age toning. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Brendon Neiland (b. 1941) Alice's Garden Oxford 50/195
Screenprint 66.5x57cm Here he surreally captures rippling reflection of Tom Tower in Christchurch. The style is emblematic of his later work that increasingly uses bold and dynamic colour palettes. 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. Condition: Excellent. -
Brendon Neiland (b. 1941) Gilbert Scott's Rose Window Christ Church Oxford 106/195
Screenprint 66x58cm Here Neiland captures the colours of the new window installed in the cathedral by George Gilbert Scott (Junior) c. 1870. The style is emblematic of his later work that increasingly uses bold and dynamic colour palettes. 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. Condition: Excellent. -
Brendon Neiland (b. 1941) Tom Tower Christ Church 38/195 Screenprint 66x58cm Here he surreally captures rippling reflection of Tom Tower in Christchurch. The style is emblematic of his later work that increasingly uses bold and dynamic colour palettes. 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. Condition: Excellent. -
Brendon Neiland (b. 1941) Peckwater Christ Church 74/195
Screen print 68.5x56cm Here he surreally captures Peckwater Quad in Christchurch, experimenting with pictorial structure with vivacious dashes of blue, orange and yellow. It is emblematic of his later work that increasingly uses bold and dynamic colour palettes. 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. Condition: Excellent. -
Cyril Kenneth Bird ‘Fougasse’ (British, 1887-1965) Careless Talk Costs Lives V
Lithographic poster c.1940 32 x 20 cm (12.5 x 8 in) Reprinted by the IV Army Corps by the 103rd Engineers Lacking the normal Fougasse edition, the IV Army Corps commissioned their Engineers - the 103rd Engineers - to produce their own edition. Indescribably rare, one of the ones in this series is inscribed 'To Al, with sincerest regards Warren C Guggenheim'. The cartoonist Fougasse, was a British cartoonist who was art editor of Punch 1937-1949, and subsequently editor until 1953. He is best known for his ‘Careless Talk Costs Lives’ series of posters, and the other posters both for the Ministry of Information, London Underground and others. The Ministry of Information’s wartime poster campaign was soon regarded as dull and uninspiring on account of its hectoring messages such as ‘Keep Calm and Carry On.’ There were posters telling the population how to conduct virtually every minute of their daily lives – for instance by saving old clothes for rags, turning off the lights, saving food, digging for victory, or watching out for spies. With this instruction overload the population ceased paying attention to the posters, so Fougasse offered his services to the Ministry of Information unpaid, with a view to bringing a touch of humour to serious messages. An amusing picture and a pithy caption helped to get the message across to the reader. His distinctive style, with the red border, was adopted by other Ministry artists. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally very good, a few very soft creases as normal. -
Cyril Kenneth Bird ‘Fougasse’ (British, 1887-1965) Careless Talk Costs Lives IV
Lithographic poster c.1940 32 x 20 cm (12.5 x 8 in) Reprinted by the IV Army Corps by the 103rd Engineers Lacking the normal Fougasse edition, the IV Army Corps commissioned their Engineers - the 103rd Engineers - to produce their own edition. Indescribably rare, one of the ones in this series is inscribed 'To Al, with sincerest regards Warren C Guggenheim'. The cartoonist Fougasse, was a British cartoonist who was art editor of Punch 1937-1949, and subsequently editor until 1953. He is best known for his ‘Careless Talk Costs Lives’ series of posters, and the other posters both for the Ministry of Information, London Underground and others. The Ministry of Information’s wartime poster campaign was soon regarded as dull and uninspiring on account of its hectoring messages such as ‘Keep Calm and Carry On.’ There were posters telling the population how to conduct virtually every minute of their daily lives – for instance by saving old clothes for rags, turning off the lights, saving food, digging for victory, or watching out for spies. With this instruction overload the population ceased paying attention to the posters, so Fougasse offered his services to the Ministry of Information unpaid, with a view to bringing a touch of humour to serious messages. An amusing picture and a pithy caption helped to get the message across to the reader. His distinctive style, with the red border, was adopted by other Ministry artists. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally very good, a few very soft creases as normal. -
William Williams (Welsh, fl. 1724-1733) Christ Church, Oxford
Engraving c. 1732 for Oxonia Depicta (pub. London 1732-33) 41x60cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Fair, gentle staining towards top and usual handling marks to margins, as illustrated. -
William Williams (Welsh, fl. 1724-1733) Jesus College, Oxford
Engraving c. 1732 for Oxonia Depicta (pub. London 1732-33) 43x44cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Fair, gentle staining towards top and usual handling marks to margins, as illustrated. -
Owen Miller (1907-1960) Owen Miller National Savings original vintage calendar poster (1950)
Lithographic poster 50 x 37 cm Printed for HMSO by Fosh & Cross. A fantastic original lithographic poster advertising the National Savings scheme and featuring a calendar for the year 1950. Born in Auckland and educated at Wellington College, Miller worked as an artist in New Zealand. His illustrations often appeared in Wellington newspapers. He found life difficult in New Zealand during the Depression, and eventually signed on to a boat as a deckhand, working his passage to the UK. When he arrived at the Port of London, he had only £5 to his name. His first job was an illustrator for J Lyons & Co; his greatest work there was to decorate the directors’ dining room as an aircraft interior. When the Second World War began, Miller started work for the Ministry of Aircraft Production. Following the war, Collins produced several posters advertising National Savings. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally very good. -
Clifford Ellis (1907-1985) Swallow
16x25cm Watercolour and pencil Provenance: the family of the artist, by descent. Born in Bognor in Sussex and trained at St Martin’s School of Art and Regent Street Polytechnic, Ellis was a graphic artist and illustrator who is best known for the posters he produced for London Transport during the 1930s. He generally collaborated with his wife Rosemary – whom he married in 1931 – on their posters. The General Post Office, Shell, and The Empire Marketing Board were also clients for their posters. They signed their posters C&RE, their initials being in alphabetical order and they are readily recognisable by their ebullient use of colour and form. Employed during the war as a camoufleur, along with so many other artists, Clifford was also an official war artist, serving with the Grenadier Guards. Rosemary, meanwhile, was an artist for the Recording Britain project. Following the war they trained art teachers at Bath Academy of Art. They also designed a series of nearly one hundred book jackets for Collins New Naturalist series, published between 1945 and 1982 and were always fascinated by animals and natural history, as with this sketch. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally very good. -
Terrence Cuneo (1907 - 1996)
Eastern Counties Otter Hounds (1971)
Lithograph 56 x 80 cm The meet at Guist Bridge, River Wensum, 31 August 1970. Terence Tenison Cuneo CVO OBE RGI FGRA trained at the Slade School of Art. He worked for the War Artists' Advisory Committee during the Second World War and also produced anti-Nazi propaganda. He most known for his postwar pictures of railways, locomotives, and industry. He was the official artist for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. Condition: very good. Unsigned proof copy. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other hunting pictures. -
Peter J Wright after Abram Games (1914 - 1996)
Festival of Britain Logo (1951)
Gouache 21 x 13 cm A gouache painting of Abram Games' fantastic Art Deco Modern design for the logo advertising the Festival of Britain. Games' design, called the Festival Star, includes a modernist Britannia in profile with bunting below, all set on the four points of the compass and in the Union Jack colours of red, white, and blue. Games was one of twelve artists invited to submit designs to the Arts Council and the Council of Industrial Design in 1948. The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition and fair that reached millions of visitors throughout the United Kingdom in the summer of 1951. It was devised as a celebration of a hundred years since the Great Exhibition of 1851, but focused entirely on Britain and its achievements rather than adopting the international outlook of the Great Exhibition. The Festival's purpose was to highlight and celebrate how far Britain had come in the wake of the Second World War's devastation. Abram Games OBE RDI was a celebrated British graphic artist. His parents were Eastern European Jews and changed their family name from Gamse to Games after moving to Britain. Games studied at Saint Martin's School of Art in London but left after two terms; aged 21, he won a poster competition for the London County Council and then began to work as a freelance poster designer. In 1937 the journal Art and Industry featured him in an article and this resulted inseveral high-profile graphic design commissions from the General Post Office, London Transport, Royal Dutch Shell, and more. He also designed stamps for the Israeli Post Office, covers for The Jewish Chronicle and synagogue prayer book prints, and designed several posters promoting Jewish organisations and initiatives. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other Modern British design. -
Leslie Macdonald "Max" Gill (1884 - 1947)
A Map of the Colne Valley Cloth District (1946)
Engraving with later hand-colouring 32 x 48 cm Signed in the plate and dated 1946. Produced for Huddersfield and District Woollen Export Group. Gill's vibrant and detailed map depicts the Colne Valley District. The Colne Valley was a loom-weaving area which played a significant role in the development of the Industrial Revolution when water-powered textile mills were brought in. Born in Brighton, Max Gill was the second son in a family of thirteen children; his elder brother was Eric Gill, the typographer and sculptor. Both Gills exhibited significant talent at a young age. Max Gill’s first map was made for a school map-drawing project following which he entered maps into competitions in boys’ magazines. In 1903 he moved to London as assistant to the ecclesiastical architects Sir Charles Nicholson and Hubert Corlette. By 1908 he had started his own architectural practice, but in 1909 Sir Edwin Lutyens commissioned Gill to paint a “wind dial” map for Nashdom, a large house in Buckinghamshire. The wind dial was set over the fireplace and attached to a weather vane on the roof, allowing the occupant to know the direction of the wind from the comfort of the house. He produced seven further wind dials including for Lutyens’s Lindisfarne Castle and for the Allhusen Room at Trinity College, Cambridge. Although Gill continued to practice as an architect, Frank Pick commissioned him to create seven pictorial maps for the Underground, the first being the famous 1913 ‘Wonderground Map of London Town.’ In 1917 he joined the Imperial War Graves Commission’s headstone design committee, designing the typeface and regimental badges. Gill’s memorials for the fallen in the First World War include for Balliol and Worcester Colleges and Christ Church in Oxford. During the 1920s and 30s Gill undertook many commercial commissions for advertising materials. The Empire Marketing Board and Shell-Mex as well as further maps for the Underground. He designed in 1922 the first diagrammatic map of the Underground which provided the foundation for Beck’s more famous map. By the 1930s his major works were murals. Those of the Arctic and Antarctic on the ceilings of the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge are beautiful, but the most impressive is the map of the North Atlantic in the first-class dining room of the Queen Mary (maiden voyage: 1936, now moored at Long Beach, California). During the Second World War he created a series of propaganda posters for the Ministry of Information. Condition: very good. In new hand-finished frame. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other decorative maps. -
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. -
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. -
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.
