Roger Bradbury Antiques has dated this Antique Equestrian Oil Painting to the 1910s.
This is a scene that portrays the artists usual flare for quality, painted with strong colours and good attention to detail.
Oil painting on board, signed lower right and inscribed lower centre to the mount with the artists name. Gallery label verso for Reeves & Sons of London.
Presented with in its high quality gilt gesso swept frame which bears small losses and professional restorations.
Size to include frame: H36.8cm L42.7cm Image only: H20cm L26cm
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Artist John Sanderson Wells was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire in 1872 and was the son of John Septimus and his wife Ellen. The family lived at No. 53 Parson’s Street. John Septimus became a successful piano and musical instrument dealer which allowed his son to have a good education at Bloxham School, following on to the Slade School of Art, London and later Academie Julian in Paris.
John Sanderson Wells exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1895 with a work entitled ‘Gone Away’ and in 1896 he exhibited a portrait of a Miss Winifred Skyes who he later married. John continued to live in Banbury until c1899 when he relocated to London.
On November 10th 1900 John married Miss Winifred Sykes and the couple took residence at No. 20 Queen Annes Grove, Chiswick.
Johns early works included sporting subjects and portraits. He later focused on hunting and sporting subjects to include horses for which he is best known. His works can be found in both oil and watercolour, he exhibited his watercolours at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours c1900. He was elected member in 1903.
John also exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Society of artists, Birmingham and the Fine Art Society. During the early 20th Century, John produced a series of illustrations for the Sphere Magazine, along with several others. He relocated to 8 Bedford Parrk Mansions in Chiswick around 1907 and this was where he spent the rest of his life.
Paintings were typically signed J Sanderson Wells and remained unchanged, despite his name being hyphenated to Sanderson-Wells around the 1920s.
John continued to paint and exhibit into the late 1940’s, and in 1948 he submitted four hunting studies into the art competition being held at the Great Britain Summer Olympics.
Wells died on March 16th 1955. Examples of his work can be found at the Banbury Town Hall, Oxfordshire County Museum, Sheffield Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum and The Whitaker and Williamson Art Gallery.
Roger Bradbury Antiques has dated this Antique Equestrian Oil Painting to the 1910s.
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