Fred Mayor was one of the truly original and innovative members of the Staithes Group. He spent his early years analysing relevant elements in the work of artists whom he admired and experimenting with a variety of styles. By the time he moved away from Staithes he had developed his own unique vision as an artist which he went on to explore and develop.In 1886�he enrolled at the prestigious Academie Julian in Paris where�he studied�for four years and enrolled for a further�session�in 1892. During his first�period of study in France, shortly after his twenty first birthday, he had his first painting,�''Autumn''�accepted for exhibition at the Royal Academy in London.Between his two sessions at the Academie Julian he shared a studio with Frank Brangwyn in Chiswick and while he was in Paris he met Philip Wilson Steer and Walter Richard Sickert who remained close friends for the rest of his life. Moving to Amberley he lived close to another artist friend, Edward Stott, and when he went to live amongst the artist''s colony in Staithes in 1899 he shared lodgings with Arthur Friedenson and Harold Knight at the house of Mr. and Mrs. George Porritt in Gun Gutter. He was elected a founder member of the Staithes Art Club and his work is in many private and public collections.The present painting ''Volendam'' is a quality watercolour measuring 12''x 15''. It is signed lower right and is mounted and framed giving an overall size of 21''x 24''. Height is 55cm (21.7inches)
Width is 62cm (24.4inches)
Depth is 3cm (1.2inches)