Camden Antiques

Description

Welcome Footsteps is a full length portrait of a maiden by William Oliver. Oil on canvas. Housed within the original double swept carved gilt wood and gesso frame. Titled to the frame and signed by the artist, W Oliver. English circa 1880-1890. A good size and offered for sale in very good condition, some crackling to the frame.

Dimensions:
Width 62cms
Depth 8cms
Height 123cms

William Oliver was an English figurative and genre artist based in London who specialised in paintings of young women. He was born William Oliver Williams at Worcester in 1823. In 1848, he moved to London where he enrolled at the Royal Academy. Oliver began exhibiting in 1851 under his full name William Oliver Williams at the British Institution and in 1858 made his debut at the Royal Academy. He also exhibited around the country at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Glasgow Institute, Manchester Art Gallery and the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.

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Camden Antiques
units 20 & 19
The vinery
Poling
West Sussex
BN189PY
07887503904