Artist: John Wright Oakes. A.R.A. (1820-1887).
Title: ''''Summer landscape with figures by a stream''''.
Oil on canvas. Signed. Circa 1870.
Size: 30''''x 46''''. Overall: 37''''x 53''''.
Now cleaned and varnished.
In very good ready to hang condition. Free UK delivery.
Provenance: Christies. Stencil number: CP692.
An exceptional example of this top rated Victorian artist.
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The man sitting on the rock is being helped by the girl to put his boots back on, having had a paddle in the stream.
John Wright Oakes (9 Jul
...y 1820 – 8 July 1887) was an English landscape painter.
He was born at Sproston House, near Middlewich, Cheshire, which had been in the possession of his family for several generations. He was educated in Liverpool, and studied art under John Bishop in the school attached to the Liverpool Mechanics'''' Institution. His earliest works were fruit-pieces. These he exhibited in 1839 and the following years at the Liverpool Academy, of which he became a member, and afterwards honorary secretary for several years.
About 1843 Oakes began painting landscapes from nature, and in 1847 the first picture exhibited by him in London, ''''Nant Frangcon, Carnarvonshire,'''' appeared at the British Institution, and was followed in 1848 by ''''On the River Greta, Keswick,'''' at the Royal Academy. He continued to send pictures, chiefly of Welsh mountain, moorland, and coast scenery, to these exhibitions, as well as to the Society of British Artists, Dudley Gallery, Portland Gallery, and elsewhere, and in 1859 came to reside in London.
He painted also in water-colours, and in 1874 was elected an associate of the Institute of Painters in Water-Colours, but resigned this position in 1875. He was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1876, and an honorary member of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1883. During the last six years of his life ill-health greatly interfered with the practice of his art. He still, however, exhibited annually at the Royal Academy, where a picture entitled ''''The Warren'''' appeared the year after his death. Among his best works were ''''A Carnarvonshire Glen,'''' ''''A Solitary Pool,'''' ''''Glen Derry,'''' ''''Malldraeth Sands,'''' ''''Aberffraw Bay,'''' ''''Marchlyn Mawr,'''' ''''Linn of Muick,'''' ''''Dunnottar Castle,'''' ''''The Bass Rock,'''' ''''The Fallow Field,'''' ''''The Border Countrie,'''' ''''The Dee Sands,'''' and ''''Dirty Weather on the East Coast.''''
Oakes died at his residence, Leam House, Addison Road, Kensington, and was buried in Brompton Cemetery.
As of 1894, the South Kensington Museum had an oil painting by him entitled ''''Disturbed,'''' an effect of early spring twilight. ''''A North Devon Glen'''' was in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, and ''''Early Spring'''' in the Glasgow Corporation galleries.
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Antique ID Number (AIDN): SA1167699
Dateline of this antique is Victorian
Height is 94cm (37.0inches)Width is 135cm (53.1inches)Depth is 8cm (3.1inches)
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