William Greenwood Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1910s.
Title: "Farm on the North Yorkshire Moors in Spring".
Signed. Circa 1910. Oil on Canvas.
Size: 15"x 18". Framed size: 22"x 25 1/4".
Provenance: T.B. & R. Jordan. Stockton-on-Tees.
From the artist's family.
A wonderful example.
In good ready to hang condition. Free UK delivery.
He became one of the Staithes Group of artists, who worked en plein air around the village of Staithes (pronounced ‘Steers’) in Yorkshire during the late 19th- early 20th century. A number of the group had studied at the Académie Julian in Paris, and the influences which mutually fertilized them came from the Barbizon School, the Impressionists, and the Newlyn School in Cornwall. The group of around forty also included Rowland Hill, Laura Knight and Harold Knight.
Howey never worked as a professional artist; he became a collector with the local gas and water company, but was accepted as an equal by his peers, inviting some of them (Rowland Hill, for example) to paint in his studio.
He used both watercolour and oils, but was most adept at oil painting, working with a thick brush or palette knife; he produced landscapes, still life and portraits.
He exhibited at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the Royal Academy (1924 & 1925 by report), the Sunderland Art Gallery and the Laing Gallery, Newcastle; his son, Robert Leslie Howey, became a professional artist.
William Greenwood Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1910s.
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John William Howey. "Spring, North Yorks Moors". Wonderful Oil.
