ANTIQUE #SA1022430

portrait mayor maidstone kent red coat robes signed bernard hailstone - CATEGORY: ANTIQUE ART - DATED 1950

Portrait Mayor Maidstone Kent Red Coat Robes Signed Bernard Hailstone

Name: Portrait Mayor Maidstone Kent Red Coat Robes Signed Bernard Hailstone
Brand: Antique
SKU: SA1022430
Price: 4000 GBP
Availability: InStock

£4,000 $5,374 €4,689

1 Oil Painting Mid Century British Portrait Mayor Maidstone Kent Dressed In Full Civic Regalia Red Robes & Gold Chain'' By Bernard Hailstone.

Subject front profile portrait believed to be Frederick Leslie Wallis mayor of Maidstone in Kent ( 1896-1962) three quarter view of British Mayor seated dressed wearing his full civic regalia red formal robes, gold chain & badge of office. He is wearing various medals The MBE The 1914 or 1914/1915 Star (World War I) The British War Medal (World War I) The Victor Medal (World War I) The Defence Medal 1939-1945 (World War II) The Special Constabulary Medal shows the head of Elizabeth II. He is a very smart gentleman wearing his white shirt with black tie and black jacket underneath and has a small moustache, combed back receding hair and is wearing a ring on his left hand & having blue eyes.

The colour red he is wearing signifies that he is representing the King.

The attention to detail is incredible to the Mayors hands, face, clothing & c...hain it is like you can feel the textures & creases which has such perspective.

Signed by the known British artist Bernard Hailstone. The highest recorded current sold price at auction is $10,732 US dollars for his portrait of Winston Churchill.

Oil on canvas.

Artist biography Bernard Hailstone (6 October 1910 – 27 December 1987)[1] was an English painter, best known for his Second World War portraits of transport and civil defence workers painted in Britain, his portraits of members of the Armed Forces painted overseas and his post-war portraits of the royal family, musicians, stage and film actors. After education at the Judd School, Tonbridge, Hailstone attended Goldsmiths'' College of Art, under James Bateman, then the Royal Academy Schools, under Walter Westley Russell. His elder brother, Harold (1897–1982), was an established magazine illustrator and cartoonist.

Hailstone belongs to the group of early 20th-century artists whose best-known work was done during the Second World War. At the beginning of the Second World War, Hailstone felt the need to incorporate his artistic contribution to the war effort with more physical work. He therefore joined the Auxiliary Fire Service, AFS, and witnessed at first hand the destruction caused by bombing during the Blitz. He recorded some of these scenes in his paintings. A number of other artists had joined the AFS and a firemen artists'' committee had been formed which also included Leonard Rosoman, Paul Lucien Dessau, Norman Hepple and Robert Coram alongside Hailstone. The group contributed to both War Artists'' Advisory Committee, WAAC, and specialist civil defence art shows, including several firemen artists'' exhibitions. In 1941 WAAC, commissioned Hailstone to paint civil defence subjects. He supplemented these works with portraits of his colleagues in the fire services and other war workers. His portrait of W. M. Ladbrooke, Able Seaman, Merchant Navy (National Maritime Museum, London), was painted following a visit to the Merchant Navy convalescent home in Limpsfield, Surrey around 1943. Following his release from the fire services, Hailstone spent time painting portraits of transport and civil defence workers. In 1943 WAAC assigned him to the Ministry of War Transport and he moved to Kingston upon Hull, working mainly around the docks there, where he continued to record the effects of the war from a civilian perspective.

One such work is his Big Ben the Bargee, showing a bargeman and his wife and completed in June 1943 (National Maritime Museum, London). Throughout the rest of the war Hailstone travelled through Algiers, Malta and southern Italy, recording the activities of the Merchant Navy in a similar, sympathetic vein. In June 1945, Hailstone was transferred to the Ministry of Information to record the work of the South East Asia Command during the Burma Campaign. The paintings he produced of Lord Louis Mountbatten and key members of his staff are now in the Imperial War Museum, London.

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Antique ID Number (AIDN): SA1022430

Dateline of this antique is 1950

Height is 85.1cm (33.5inches)
Width is 72cm (28.3inches)
Depth is 4.5cm (1.8inches)

Antique ID: SA1022430
Item: Portrait Mayor Maidstone Kent Red Coat Robes Signed Bernard Hailstone - (reference SA1022430)
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