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John Sergeant (1937-2010) Artist Studio

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John Sergeant (1937-2010) Artist Studio Modern British  Art Studio %%alt5%%
Artist Studio with Manikin
Oil on canvas, signed John Sergeant (lower left)
Displayed in a wooden frame decorated with brown paper
A black & white photo showing the artist standing beside the picture is included with the sale of the painting.
Provenance: From the studio of the artist.

Note: The studio in the painting is thought to be at 8 Church Street, Wye, Ashford in Kent, where John and Carolyn were living between the years 1977 and 1983.

John Sergeant was born in the district of Woolwich, London, on 5th June 1937. He died aged 73 after a long illness at Builth Wells hospital, Mid-Wales, on 7th Jan 2010.

John lived a productive life pursuing his creative ambitions while achieving wide recognition with collectors and dealers for his paintings and drawings. The quizzical and eccentric nature of John’s character manifests itself in many of his compositions so also does his humour. Over the years John had perfected his style and technique, mostly using charcoal estompé on Ingres paper. He also used coloured pastels and conté crayon, sometimes with small touches of Chinese white. He was a keen observer and loved to spend his spare time in antique shops and auctions where he would often find objects to draw. With him out on a walk in a churchyard one day John found lying on the ground a few small shards of an old tombstone with traces of old lettering, “excellent material to include in a drawing”, he announced, but unfortunately his cancer had weakened his resolve and sadly the drawing never came to fruition.

John pursued his career to teach at Canterbury College of Art, and the Art Schools of Dover and Folkestone. In 1981 while visiting London he was greatly inspired by the exhibition of Interiors held by the renowned art dealer, Sir Jack Baer, at Hazlitt Gooden and Fox. Together they formed a close friendship and with Sir Jack’s help John went on to secure commissions to make a series of room portraits, visiting Castle Coole, Stowell Park, and Deene Park. The drawings he made of Erddig were acquired by the National Trust. Sir Jack Baer was a great proponent of John and Carolyn’s work, frequently holding exhibitions for them at the Hazlitt gallery.

Several one-man exhibitions were held at the Mass Gallery in Clifford Street in 1986 and 1988, and a third in 1991, culminating in 1992 with a show of works done in Prague, where he accompanied the Prince of Wales on an official visit. HRH the Prince of Wales first noticed John’s work at the National Trust exhibition, The Long Perspective, at Agnews in 1987, in which the artist showed drawings and watercolours of Errdig House in Wales. The Prince asked him to do some drawings for his book, A Vision of Britain, in 1989 and invited him to stay at Sandringham the following year to make a record of several large barns on the estate. John accompanied the Prince and Princess of Wales to Prague from 6 to 10 May 1991, the focus of the trip was architectural heritage. In 1994 at the Hazlitt Gallery John’s work was shown in “Three Contemporary Masters” alongside that of John Ward and Jehan Daly.

Several exhibitions followed:

John Sergeant Drawings: Hazlitt Gooden & Fox, 1996

John Sergeant Recent Drawings: Hazlitt Gooden & Fox, 2000

John Sergeant Recent Drawings: Sir Jack Baer & Co in association with The Fine Art Society, 2002

John Sergeant Recent Drawings: Sir Jack Baer & Co in association with Katrin Bellinger at Colnaghi, 2006

John has also exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the New Grafton Gallery, the Trafford Gallery, the National Museum and Gallery of Wales, Cardiff, and the Royal Library, Windsor.

After John’s death, a number of his drawings including a self-portrait were donated to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The museum had previously acquired a drawing, Collars, in 1994.
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DimensionsCanvas: 30 in x 40 in. (76 cm x 102 cm.) Frame: 35 1/2 in x 45 1/2 in. (90 cm x 115.3 cm.) Category Antique Pictures / Engravings / Art > Antique Oil Paintings Date c1980  1980s Antiques Material Oil Painting on Canvas Origin English Condition Very Good Item code as176a459 Status Sold

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