Big Sky Fine Art has dated this Mid Century Oil Portrait to the 1940s.
English/Australian ( b.1900 - d.1991 ).
Portrait Of Katherine Joan Merry nee Horstmann b.1914 - d.1973. Director Of The Horstmann Gear Company Of Bath, 1946.
Oil On Canvas.
Signed Lower Left.
Image size 23.2 inches x 19.3 inches ( 59cm x 49cm ).
Frame size 29.7 inches x 25.8 inches ( 75.5cm x 65.5cm ).
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The painting is presented and supplied in its original frame (which is shown in these photographs).
The painted surface has benefitted from cleaning and conservation, which took place on our instruction, supervision and approval.
This vintage painting is in very good condition. It wants for nothing and is supplied ready to hang and display.
The painting is signed lower left.
Provenance: Loaned to and exhibited at The Museum of Bath at Work in the city of Bath from 2009 to 2019. Previously with FJ Harris & Son Pictures (Bath) Ltd, 13 & 14 Green Street, Bath in December 1969 for framing.
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Howard Barron was an outstanding landscape and portrait painter. He was born in Kent but moved to Australia in 1924 where he quickly gained a reputation as one of a younger generation of Australian landscape painters. Throughout the 1940s he was prolific and successful, being a regular finalist in the Archibald Prize and an associate member of the Royal Art Society of New South Wales. Barron returned to England in the late 1940s and practiced widely as a portrait painter. In 1954 he won a silver medal at the Paris Salon and in 1965 he held his first solo exhibition in Britain at the Qantas Gallery.
Barron lived for a time in Cornwall, where he was elected to membership of a number of art societies including the St. Ives Society of Artists and the International Institute of Art and Letters. He exhibited with the St. Ives Society and also at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Fine Art Society. He also lived in Copthorne, Sussex for some years before returning to Australia in the late 1950s, where he lived until his death in 1991.
Although he made his name as a landscape and marine artist Barron became well known for his portraits of prominent men and women. After the Second World War he was twice commissioned to paint portraits of Sir Winston Churchill and one three occasions he was commissioned to paint the Queen. His portrait of Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba for the main hall of Australia House in London attracted considerable publicity. He also painted the portraits of many business leaders and institutional heads, so it seems very fitting that he should have also painted Katherine Joan Merry (nee Horstmann).
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Howard Barron 1900-1991. Portrait of Katherine Merry Nee Horstmann 1914-1973. Director of the Horstmann Gear Company of Bath, 1946. Framed Oil Painting on Canvas.
