Charles Franklin White

The Hop Pickers

1924

Oil on canvas on board, signed lower left Image size: 10 1/2 x 14 inches In the course of a long and varied career, Sep Scott exhibited in the Royal Academy and was a member of the Royal Watercolour Society. Scott produced some famous works for the railway poster campaigns in his early years. He became a book illustrator and one of the highest paid and respected of all British poster artists. Towards the end of his life, during a period when his style had gone somewhat out of vogue, he began working for Leonard Matthews and his trio of comics, Knockout, Sun and Thriller Comics Library. At first, Scott was used for picture strips, drawing all the adventures of the pirate hunter, Captain Flame, and proving to be a natural born strip artist. Then, when Matthews took over Thriller Comics Library, Scott began to paint the covers. He drew scores of full colour cover paintings, which would, as Leonard Matthews commented, “grace the walls of any stately home”, and were, in all probability, largely responsible for the success of the Library and the fact that these comics are so valued today amongst collectors. Scott also drew a number of short Robin Hood strips for the Library and some fine full-length adventure picture stories including Jane Eyre, Pride of the Ring, Secret Operator and the splendidly atmospheric, The Dark Shadows of London. For a short period, he also painted the occasional cover - and back page - for Comet and Sun and also contributed some paintings for the first Buck Jones Annual and the covers for both issues of the Billy the Kid Book...

Oil on board, signed lower left Inscribed and dated 1905 on reverse Image size: 8 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches (21 x 27 cm) Contemporary style hand made frame This is a scene of the outskirts of the village of East Ruston, found near the coast in Norfolk. The setting is a sand and gravel pit with the houses of the village just identifiable through the trees in the background. This small sand pit...

David Forrester Wilson 1873 - 1950 "Summer Haze" Oil on canvas, signed lower left Image size: 18 x 24 inches Original gilt frame David Forrester Wilson's sensitive portrayal of ...

Oil on canvas on board Image size: 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (19 x 14 cm) Hand made contemporary style frame This small-scale artwork depicts a working farmstead, in New Zealand. It is a textural work with lots of movement and life. Under blue skies luscious vegetation grows throughout this scene between the farm buildings. There are signs of life everywhere in this scene - the fence at the rear has seemingly just been constructed as spare planks of wood rest just next to it. The farm carts...

William Frederick Witherington was born in London in 1785. In 1805, he began his studies at the Royal Academy Schools. He first exhibited at the British Institution in 1808, and at the Royal Academy in 1811, where he continued to exhibit almost every year. He also exhibited for several years at the Birmingham Society of Arts. He travelled around England painting views of rural life in Devon, Kent, Wales and the Lake District. During the 18th and 19th centuries the hop gardens of Kent, Sussex and Surrey provided artists with a rich source of subject matter. The picking season was the English equivalent of the French and Italian grape...

Bean Picking, New Jersey, 1890 By. Frederick Rondel (1826-1892) Signed Lower Right Unframed: 21.5" x 35.5" Framed: 32" x 46" Frederick Rondel, born in Paris in 1826, came to America...

Oil on canvas Canvas size: 18 x 26 inches Framed size: 22.5 x 30.5 inches Signed lower right

A charming turn of the Century landscape in oil showing children gathering blackberries on the side of a woodland path in Glen Aldyn, Ramsey, Isle Of Man. The artist has signed illeg...