Alethea Garstin

Newlyn Harbour - 20th Century Cornwall Harbour Landscape Oil Painting with Boats

1930, circa

Born in Wilmslow, George moved to a small dairy farm in Gloucestershire at the age of 10. Under the tutelage of Maurice Feild George painted from a very young age, first publicly exh...

Adrian Daintrey was born in Balham, London on 23 June 1902, the youngest of three children of Ernest Daintrey, a solicitor and his wife Lucy Mary (née Blagdon). He was educated at Ch...

Following his flee from Paris in 1940, Hayden took refuge from the German occupation in the South of France alongside Robert Delauney and later Samuel Beckett who would become a life...

Cottages at Bibury, Oil on Canvas-Board Painting by Peter Greenham Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas-board 15.2 x 22.9 cm 6 x 9 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...