Cheshire Antiques Consultant Ltd has dated this Victorian Floral Oil Painting to the Victorian era.
Style impressionist.
Subject still life scene of beautiful yellow & red white roses.
The chiaroscuro composition of this artwork with its beautiful contrast of light & dark with the yellow, red flowers & green foliage colours, with the contrast of the dark background is so fascinating and makes the flowers stand out exceptionally well, you will treasure this work of art as a family heirloom and love down the years and well beyond!
Signed by the known Scottish listed artist James Stuart Park.
Oil on canvas.
Title “Red & Yellow Roses” c1880’s by James Stuart Park 1862-1933.
In our opinion this is among his finest works.
A great display size with the frame being 75 cm high and 65 cm wide.
Such a sought after by private collectors, interior designers, galleries & museums.
Origin from Scotland
Set in a rather attractive later stylish decorative gilt moulded frame which enhances this painting even further.
With hanging thread on the back ready for immediate home display.
Circa late 19th century Victorian era.
Artist biography of the artist James Stuart Park, who was born in Kidderminster, Worcestershire. His parents where Scottish, his father & mother shortly after he was born moved to Ayrshire in Scotland where he grew up. He attended the well known Glasgow School of Art. Park furthered his studies in Paris with Lefebvre, Cormon also Boulanger. He was a colleague of the Glasgow Boys, sharing a studio with David Gauld and James Kay. He exhibited shown at the RSA also the GI, RSW, Connell & Sons and in England at the RA, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, MAFA and Baillie Gallery. He died in 1933 at the age of 71.
Park specialised & loved to paint arranged flowers, which was his favourite subject & he is best known for his flower works of art, he usually painted flowers against a dark background. He was largely noted for his flower studies, in particular roses. He also painted a limited series of head and shoulder studies of young girls, surrounded by flowers. Examples of his work are to be found in the collection of the Dick Institute and Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie and Dundee City Art Galleries and Museums. National Galleries Scotland Kelvingrove art Gallery & Museum. Glasgow life Museums. Museums & Galleries Edinburgh. Fife Collections Centre. Kirkcaldy Galleries. Lillie art gallery. Paisley Art Institute Collection. Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. The Hunterian University of Glasgow. Williamson Art Gallery & Museum. His paintings have sold at auction houses around the world with the current highest sold price being $44,366 US dollars which was for pink and lemon roses.
Provenance Label for: T. & R. Annan & Sons Ltd., Glasgow. McTears & in collection of Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD.
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Condition report.
Offered in fine used condition.
Offered in overall acceptable order. Having various surface foxing stains & craquelure to the canvas, varnish loss, minor paint loss to the outer edges. Some paint touchs to the dark background area in places. The frame has various general wear, cracking, dust, stains with some chips losses commensurate with usage & age.
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Dimensions in centimetres of the frame
High (75 cm)
Wide (65 cm)
Depth (6 cm)
Cheshire Antiques Consultant Ltd has dated this Victorian Floral Oil Painting to the Victorian era.
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Victorian Oil Painting Flowers Yellow & Red Roses by James Stuart Park
