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Cornwall Harbour View, circa 1930 by Sir Walter Westley Russell CVO RA

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Cornwall Harbour View, circa 1930 by Sir Walter Westley Russell CVO RA (1867-1949) Circa 1930 view of a Cornish harbour, oil on board by Sir Walter Westley Russell. Excellent and rare example of the painters work taking a high persecutive of the small Cornish harbour. Signed bottom right, presented in a good frame with detail inscription verso. Measurements: 17" x 14" framed approx BIOGRAPHY Born 31 May 1867, in Forest Gate (Essex); died 16 April 1949, in London. Painter, engraver (etching), illustrator. Figures, portraits, interiors, landscapes, architectural views. Walter Westley Russell trained under Frederick Brown at Westminster School of Art. He taught at Slade School of Fine Art, London from 1895 to 1927. He was elected a Royal Academician in 1926 and served as Keeper of the Royal Academy from 1927 to 1942. He was knighted in 1935. He was notably appreciated as a portraitist, and also made etchings. He contributed to the following publications: Illustrated London News, Daily Chronicle, The Graphic and Pall Mall Magazine. During World War II, he undertook several commissions for the War Artists Advisory Committee. He exhibited in London from 1891. He appeared at the exhibitions at the Royal Academy, London, the Royal Hibernian Academy and the New English Art Club, and in Liverpool in 1909. Museum and Gallery Holdings Adelaide (AG of South Australia): Yachting at Blakeney (oil on canvas) Cambridge (Fitzwilliam Mus.): Sunlight (watercolour) Dublin (GMA) Leicester (New Walk Mus. and AG): Girl on a Beach (red chalk) Liverpool (Walker AG) London (Grosvenor Gallery) London (Imperial War Mus.): General Sir Alexander John Godley (1919, oil on canvas); Reginald Stone (1941, oil on canvas); Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding (oil on canvas); Staff Nurse R. Rosser (1942, oil on canvas) London (Royal Academy): Alice (c. 1926, oil on canvas); Studland Beach (c. 1943, oil on canvas) London (Tate Collection): Donkeys and Kites (exhibited 1909, oil on canvas); Carting Sand(exhibited 1910, oil on canvas); The Blue Dress (1911, oil on canvas); Mr Minney (1920, oil on canvas); The Amber Beads (exhibited 1926, oil on canvas); Cordelia (exhibited 1930, oil on canvas); The Farmyard (exhibited 1934, oil on canvas); High Tide, Blakeney (exhibited 1938, oil on canvas) Manchester (Whitworth AG): The Downs from Bungalow Town (watercolour); View of Southwick, from the Estuary (watercolour) Pietermaritzburg
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    Height: 14 in (35.56 cm)Diameter: 17 in (43.18 cm)
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    Blackwater, GB
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    Seller: 7832951stDibs: LU1577213509062

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