ANTIQUE #SA1221512

cavalier portrait oil painting by william arthur breakespeare - CATEGORY: ANTIQUE ART - DATED 1880

Cavalier Portrait Oil Painting By William Arthur Breakespeare

Name: Cavalier portrait oil painting by William Arthur Breakespeare
Brand: Antique
SKU: SA1221512
Price: 1650 GBP
Availability: InStock

£1,650 $2,235 €1,944

A superb oil on canvas depicting a smiling cavalier by William Arthur Breakespeare 1856-1914. A wonderful quality work by this master of genre painting, the Cavalier stands half-length lifting a lidded tankard and gazing out at the viewer with a broad grin. The detail of the clothing and the face are stunning and the whole work has a warmth and vitality to it. The painting is in excellent untouched condition and is signed to the lower left W.A.Breakespeare. William Arthur Breakspeare (1856–1914) RBA, RBSA was born in Birmingham, the son of John Breakspeare, a flower painter working in the Birmingham japanning trade. Breakspeare lived in Edgbaston until the age of 22. He was apprenticed to the japanners, Halbeard and Wellings, as a decorator. He was closely associated with the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA) gallery, exhibiting 34 works from 1874 to 1899. He was one of the first Associates of the RBSA in 1881 and was elected to the RBSA in 1884. He was also a founder member o...f the Birmingham Art Circle. In about 1884 he visited Newlyn in Cornwall where other ‘Birmingham Boys’ were helping to establish the colony of artists. His work covered many styles including genre, portrait, figure and 18th-century costume pieces and landscape. Breakspeare spent time in Paris, moving there in 1879. Whilst living there he exhibited An Eastern Maid at the RBSA, perhaps showing an influence of Orientalism from his stay. His Parisian stay was short and he moved to Haverstock Hill in London a few years later in 1881. He is understood to have spent the rest of his life there. As well as his training in Paris, Breakspeare was initially trained at the Birmingham Government School of Design and Charles Verlat''s Academy in Antwerp. Breakspeare exhibited around eight works at the Royal Academy in London from 1883 to 1893, including To Gretna Green and Bathers. This piece is a fine example of his work and likely an exhibited piece, it retains the original superb quality gilt frame which is in excellent untouched condition, with just the odd minor repair. The whole is a wonderfully decorative painting with a great presence and impact. C.1880.

Overall sizes in inches including frame: 28 ½ by 34 ½

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Antique ID Number (AIDN): SA1221512

Dateline of this antique is 1880

Height is 87.5cm (34.4inches)
Width is 72.5cm (28.5inches)
Depth is 7.5cm (3.0inches)

Antique ID: SA1221512
Item: Cavalier Portrait Oil Painting By William Arthur Breakespeare - (reference SA1221512)
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