Studio RT Ltd

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We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely pair of oils on canvas by the artist F. E. JAMIESON, who flourished between 1885 and 1940 and who has signed the paintings in the lower left hand corners with his pseudonym W. Richards and inscribed it verso 'Loch Awe N.B.' The pair of paintings depict two different Scottish Highland scenes, both with a group of highland cattle watering, one painted at sunset and the other in the morning.

F. E. Jamieson was a painter in oil and watercolour of highland landscapes and coastal scenes. (The work of this highly prolific artist is curious since the oils and watercolours have two quite distinctive styles and subject matter. The oil paintings are most frequently seen and these are highland landscapes or loch scenes - sometimes they appear to be signed with pseudonyms such as 'W. Richards' and 'Phil Hips' - the location is usually inscribed on the reverse. The watercolours are often coastal scenes with boats and figures on a shore, painted in a more traditional Victorian style, and possibly pre-date the oils. F. E. Jamieson's beach scenes were published as postcards around 1920 by G. Ajelli & Co. of London on a textured card to give the appearance of an oil. Jamieson is known to have travelled widely in the South of England between the wars selling his work but does not appear to have exhibited.) This quote in parentheses is taken from Jeremy Wood's book 'Hidden Talents - A Dictionary of Neglected Artists Working 1880-1950'.

Work by F. E. Jamieson can be seen at artprice.com (533 auction results), other auction sites and on google images, under F. E. Jamieson and W. Richards, as well as in our sold section, as we have sold over the last decade or so, over a hundred of his works.

Please note that on all these sites you will find F. E. Jamieson variously listed as Francis E. Jamieson, F.E.Jamieson, Frank E. Jamieson, Frederick E. Jamieson etc., although he is most commonly known as Francis. As there has never been a biography of him that gives birth and death dates or any other details about his life, it may well be that all these names are pseudonyms. You may also find some listings under his various pseudonyms of Arnould Pienne, Graham Williams, Aubrey Ramus, J. H. Boel, F. Walters, Joel Owen, Henry Cooper, H. James, P. Arnould, Cedric Gray, Stanley Graham, Montgomery Ansell, H. B. Davis, Stanley Penn, A. de Perrin, C.Frater, C. McKinley, W. Richards, etc .

The paintings have been newly framed in 2 3/4" simple gilt frames to suit. They will be supplied wired and ready to hang.

Image size: 19 3/8" x 11 3/8" - 49.2cm x 28.9cm

Frame size: 25" x 17" - 63.5cm x 43.15cm

Medium: Oils on canvas

Condition: Very good. The canvas surface of both paintings is in cleaned, revarnished condition with some fine craquelure and they both have a single patch on the back. There is no evidence of repairs or overpainting to the front. The frames are new.