Cheshire Antiques Consultant Ltd has dated this Victorian Bird Watercolour Painting to the Victorian era.
Subject ornithology study of a beautiful cute Blue tit bird, which has vibrant colour hues of blue & turquoise, grey, white, light yellow, black & brown. The little bird in side profile is perched on an apple blossom tree hanging onto a lower branch, looking towards the right. Which has a few little dark blue coloured berries & some sparse leaves on.
Title “Apple Blossom and Blue Tit” by Arthur Wardle.
Medium is watercolour & bodycolour on paper, set in a recent white with gold border mount & AR70 protective glass on the front.
Signed in the bottom corner by the known listed British artist Arthur Wardle.
A fine rare example of his work particularly as this is a bird study.
Set in a recent traditional heavy decorative gilt moulded Larson Julh LJE Item No 123360000 frame.
Circa of the painting 1900 beginning of the 20th century end of Victorian era.
A nice display size with the frame being 55.5 cm wide and 63.5 cm high.
Artist biography Arthur Wardle (1860-1949) Born in London, aged just sixteen Wardle had a piece displayed at the Royal Academy. His first exhibit was a study of cattle by the River Thames, leading to a lifelong interest in painting animals. In 1880 Wardle lived in Oakley Square, Camden, but artistic success enabled him to move along with his wife to the more upmarket Alma Square in St John's Wood, London in 1892. Wardle loved this area as it was near the zoo, which gave him easy access to study nature help to make him the finest animal artists of his generation.
Wardle was prolific until 1936 he exhibited more than 100 works at the Royal Academy, as well as the Society of British Artists at Suffolk Street. He painted a variety of animal subjects with equal skill but his work may be divided into two categories, domestic and exotic; animals from overseas including leopards, polar bears and tigers such as The Deer-Stealer (1915) were painted from sketches that he made at London Zoo. He is considered equally proficient in oils, watercolours and pastels and was elected to the Pastel Society in 1911 and became a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours in 1922.
In 1931 he held his first one-man exhibition at the Fine Art Society and in 1935 the Vicar's Gallery put on an exhibition of his work. He also exhibited in Paris. By 1936 Wardle had moved to West London. His career was highly successful and his works continue to be sought after and widely reproduced on postcards, calendars and boxes of chocolates. He remains one of the widely known dog painters of the 19th and 20th centuries. The highest sold price at auction is $510,978 US Dollars for a painting that sold at Christie's in London. Arthur Wardle died on 16 July 1949.
Sources see wikipedia, Tate Museum, Christie’s & Bonhams.
Provenance Royal Institute Of Painters In Water Colours 195 Piccadilly, London, W.1. Back Label, Artist address label Alma Square, St Johns Wood, N.W 8. High end Somerset based auction, Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD.
Highly sought after due to the collectible nature of the ornithology subject matter.
With new hanging thread on the back ready for immediate home wall display.
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Condition report.
Offered in fine used condition.
Front painting surface is in overall acceptable order. Having foxing staining and minor paint loss in places. The frame having some minor general wear, scuffs, scratches, stain commensurate with being handmade.
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Victorian Watercolour Apple Blossom Blue Tit Bird by Arthur Wardle
