George G Fryer, Coastal Landscape with Fisherfolk, Boats & Cottages - Antique Oil Painting

Name: George G Fryer, Coastal Landscape with Fisherfolk, Boats & Cottages - Antique Oil Painting
Brand: Antique
SKU: SA1091321
Availability: SoldOut

19th century

Sold by Brave Fine Art

Description

This atmospheric late-19th-century oil painting by British artist George Garth Fryer (1832-1912) depicts a coastal landscape with fisherfolk, boats, and cottages. Born in Preston, Fryer was an accomplished painter of coastal scenes, maritime subjects and landscapes.

Illuminated by the radiant glow of an early sun, the sea shimmers with a calm serenity. Moored boats are readied for the day ahead, while a family works in the foreground. Distant sails are visible like flickering candles through the golden haze of morning. Two thatched cottages stand beyond.

Fryer preferred nature as its most alluring, when the light, either at sunrise or sunset, creates an evocative mood. His coastal vistas, such as this one from 1877, capture the imagination and transport us into an idealised vision of seafaring life. Searching for the picturesque, he painted views across Europe, from rugged North Wales to the sun-drenched lakes of Italy and from the Rhine Valley to the Bosphorus. Each portrayed in his typically romanticised style.

He lived, for the majority of his life, in London.

Signed/dated in the lower right and held within a gilt frame, which is probably original.

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Medium: Oil on canvas

Overall size: 52½” x 34½” / 134cm x 88cm

Year of creation: 1877

Provenance: Private collection, UK.

Condition: Cleaned. Craquelure throughout. Two patched repairs. The paint layer is stable. Frame with various marks and showing its age.

Artist’s auction maximum: £4,500 for ‘The Ferrymen (1877)’, Oil on canvas, Christie’s, Maritime Sale, London, 1995 (lot 605).

Our reference: BRV1707

Physical Dimensions

Height

88cm (34.65")

Width

134cm (52.76")

Depth

10cm (3.94")

Declaration

Brave Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1870s.

Reference Numbers

Sellingantiques Reference

SA1091321

Description

This atmospheric late-19th-century oil painting by British artist George Garth Fryer (1832-1912) depicts a coastal landscape with fisherfolk, boats, and cottages.

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Born in Preston, Fryer was an accomplished painter of coastal scenes, maritime subjects and landscapes.

Brave Fine Art

fig 1. George G Fryer, Coastal Landscape With Fisherfolk, Boats & Cottages - Antique Oil Painting — fig 1. George G Fryer, Coastal Landscape with Fisherfolk, Boats & Cottages - Antique Oil Painting

Illuminated by the radiant glow of an early sun, the sea shimmers with a calm serenity. Moored boats are readied for the day ahead, while a family works in the foreground. Distant sails are visible like flickering candles through the golden haze of morning. Two thatched cottages stand beyond.

fig 2. George G Fryer, Coastal Landscape With Fisherfolk, Boats & Cottages - Antique Oil Painting — fig 2. George G Fryer, Coastal Landscape with Fisherfolk, Boats & Cottages - Antique Oil Painting

Fryer preferred nature as its most alluring, when the light, either at sunrise or sunset, creates an evocative mood. His coastal vistas, such as this one from 1877, capture the imagination and transport us into an idealised vision of seafaring life. Searching for the picturesque, he painted views across Europe, from rugged North Wales to the sun-drenched lakes of Italy and from the Rhine Valley to the Bosphorus. Each portrayed in his typically romanticised style.