Martin Yeoman

Beach with Cliffs (Dorset) Painting by Martin Yeoman

Beach Scene, Norfolk Coast, Oil on Board Painting by Peter Greenham 1909-1992 Additional information: Medium: Oil on board 18.5 x 30 cm 7 1/4 x 11 3/4 in Signed with initials Provenance Jonleigh Gallery, Surrey 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...

Glamorgan Shore, Oil on Canvas by Nan Youngman, 1962 Additional information: Medium: Oil on Canvas 50.8 x 76.2 cm 20 x 30 in Signed and dated Nan You...

Landscape Seascape Painting of The Little Bay in Jersey by Artist James Longueville PS PBSA (British Northern School) Oil on board, signed bottom left,...

Title: British Impressionist Watercolor of Coastal Landscape with Cliffs By Anthony Avery (British 1946-2023) Original watercolor on artists paper, unframed Dimensions: 11.25 x 15.25...