Rue des Fontenelles has dated this Padua Cathedral Oil Painting to the 1940s.
In 1929 after graduation he took up a travelling scholarship to Rome. In 1935 his painting Mother and Child was acquired by Carlisle Art Gallery. Although he was reclusive and reluctant to show his work he exhibited at the RA Summer exhibition (in 1950 and 1954) and the Portrait Society and at The Paris Salon. A large solo exhibition took place at the University of Oxford’s Institute of Education in 1964.
After a travelling scholarship to Rome, in 1929, Finney returned to become a teacher at Chelsea School of Art – working alongside Henry Moore who was in charge of the Sculpture Department and Graham Sutherland, the Department of Design.
From 1927-1934 he exhibited at the NEAC. In 1935 his painting Mother and Child was acquired by Carlisle Art Gallery. During WW2 Finney worked for the light rescue service of the Civil Defense. After the War he taught at Reading University and was in charge of life drawing there when he retired in 1970.
Dimensions - 58 x 48 cm
Rue des Fontenelles has dated this Padua Cathedral Oil Painting to the 1940s.
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Padua Cathedral - Antique Oil Painting
