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Steer, Philip Wilson. O.M. [b1860-1942d]

Framlingham, Suffolk, The Moat Framlingham Castle. original watercolour & drawing and wash sketch. 1928.

A 1928 watercolour of this landscape of a corner of the castle and moat at Framlingham in Suffolk. With the details of the artist and scene on the mount. The back of the picture has a Manchester Gallery label affixed for Charles A. Jackson Gallery, 12 St Anne's Square and hand written titles dated as 1928, drawing NOT signed. There is a facsimile & copy of the letter from the gallery stating the work was acquired from the artists nephew Major Hamilton and this is dated 1949. Measures. 8.5 x 12 inches or 18 x 23 inches with frame/ mount and glass. Mount has an odd light foxing spot or two drawing clear.
NOTES Born Birkenhead in1860-died 1942. He was an influential art teacher & painter. His sea and landscape paintings made him a leading figure in the Impressionist movement in Britain. Steer spent several summers on the East Coast, at Walberswick and Southwold in Suffolk, making pictures of holidaymakers in the sun. He made rough notes on the spot in sketchbooks, and in the studio made designs for a series of paintings. These were most original in their dislocation of the figures, and their shorthand sketchy outlines but in time he turned to a more traditional English style, and spent more time painting in the countryside rather than on the coast. As a painting tutor at the Slade School of Art for many years he influenced generations of young artists. Exhibited at the R.A. had a major show at the Goupil Gallery in 1889, professor of painting at the Slade School c1893. He was recruited by Lord Beaverbrook to paint in the Great War and mostly naval and coastal scenes, this was probably done for this project. Sold as genuine NOT a copy or some mechanical print.