David Gainford

David Gainford - Contemporary Oil, Sporting Plage

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A charming oil study depicting a father and daughter walking on the beach. the walk towards away from the sea as waves crash behind them. Signed to the lower right. Presented in a wo...

Pierre Neveu (b.1929) - On the Beach, oil on canvas. A vibrant study of a mother and child, enjoying a relaxing day at the beach. Signed lower right. Titled to the reverse in French....

Oil on canvas. Unsigned.

Well presented in a contemporary wood frame. Signed. On board.

Playing on the Beach, Oil on Board Painting by Peter Greenham 1909-1992 Additional information: Medium: Oil on board 25.4 x 35.6 cm 10 x 14 in Signed with initials Peter Greenham was a distinguished figurative painter of portraits, landscapes and incidents from domestic life. His work was both sensitive and intelligent and like himself, without showiness or pretension. He was keeper of the Royal Academy Schools and a popular figure who taught many well-known artists including Martin Yeoman, Peter Kuhfeld, Edmund Fairfax-Lucy and Jane Corsellis. Greenham was born in Streatham and educated at Dulwich before studying English at Magdalen College, Oxford, followed by Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art in Kensington from 1936-39 under the supervision of Ernest Jackson. After leaving Byam Shaw he became a schoolmaster at Magdalen College School, Oxford and was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1951 and an R.A. in 1960. In 1964 he succeeded Sir Henry Rushbury as Keeper of the Royal Academy Schools, a position he held with distinction until his retirement in 1985. The Keeper has the responsibility of running the RA Schools and Greenham showed himself to have great sympathy and understanding for his students. In retirement he was able to concentrate entirely on his painting and tended to paint places he knew well such as the Norfolk coast, Northumberland, Oxfordshire and Annecy as well as his wife, the painter Jane Dowling...

It started as a drawing of war, and tanks, and fighters, and accompanied with the bombs and shooting noises. My son plays in drawing. He creates a world, populates it with characte...

Oil on canvas Karine Bartoli was born in 1971 in Ajaccio. She enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Marseille where she graduated in 1997. Since then she has ...