Country Homes Antiques Stirling has dated this Victorian Figurative Oil Painting to the Victorian era.
A stunning, large and very fine signed oil painting by the rare English genre painter. John Monteith who exhibited from 1885 until 1903.
This work depicts elegant women on a balcony overlooking some event in the street or garden below. The work is signed lower left and unlined and unrestored.
Title: “Elegant women on a balcony"
Signature: Signed lower left
Provenance: Private UK collection - from the contents of a ballroom of a hotel
Medium: Oil on original canvas
Size: c. 30 x 25 inches unframed / 34 x 29 inches framed
Condition: Unlined original canvas - some very small spots of retouching
John Monteith was an English genre painter who was active and exhibited between 1885 and 1903. It is believed he was born in Scotland but painted in England and exhibited at the Royal Academy in London and the Royal Society of British Artists. Little else is known about his life, and it's likely he died around 1903 as all exhibition history of the painter ends there. His work is rare. We only know of one other painting of his sold at Christie's on March14th 2006, similar in size also.
Country Homes Antiques Stirling has dated this Victorian Figurative Oil Painting to the Victorian era.
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JOHN. A. MONTEITH (exhibited1885 - 1903) Oil painting
