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Please note that any white marks on the photographs are not defects, but light reflecting off the varnished surface.

We are delighted to offer for sale this interesting still life oil on canvas by the artist George Herbert Buckingham Holland, who has signed the painting in the top left hand corner. The painting depicts a lacquered tray with a selection of Chinese objects upon it. There is a large figures of a Chinese elder, a Chinese teapot, a blue and white cup and saucer and a blue and white dish. Around the neck of the figures is a string of beads including some jade. To the left of the tray is another Chinese figurine dressed in traditional garb.

The interesting thing about this painting is that is bears a considerable resemblance, although slightly smaller, to a still life painting by this artist in the collection of Northampton Museum and Art Gallery which is entitled 'The Sage'. Both of the figurines and the tray that are in this painting are also in the painting that we are offering. 'The Sage' was painted in 1927.

George Herbert Buckingham Holland was born in Northampton on 28th April 1901. He was a portrait, landscape and still life painter, principally in oils. He was educated at Northampton Grammar School, he studied at the Northampton School of Art, Leicester College of Art 1918-1923) and Chelsea Polytechnic. He opened a studio in 1923 at Whitworth Chambers, George Row, Northampton. He lived in Chelsea for some while, making a considerable living as a portrait painter, but returned to Northampton in 1939, where he remained for the rest of his life. He died in 1987.

He exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Oil Painters Institute, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the New English Art Club.

He is listed in The Dictionary of British Artists by Grant M. Waters and The Dictionary of British Artists (Collectors' Club).

The Northampton Museum and Art Gallery held a retrospective exhibition of his work in 1997 to mark the 10th anniversary of his death.

There are 48 of his paintings in the National Collection, which can be viewed at BBC - Your Paintings.

Auction results achieve for works by this artist are available at artprice (40), findartinfo (34), arcadja (26) and artnet (10).

The painting has been newly framed in an ornate 3" pewter coloured frame and will be supplied wired and ready to hang.

Medium Oils on canvas