Artist: Arthur Herbert Rigg. (1859-1915). Bradford.
Title: ''Cottage at Tems Beck, Giggleswick, Yorkshire''.
Signed. Circa 1890. Oil on canvas.
Size: 30''x 20''. Framed size: 40 1/2''x 30 1/2''.
In it''s very good original gilt gold leaf frame.
A very good large oil painting by Rigg.
Now painting and frame cleaned. In very good ready to hang condition. Free UK delivery.
Replaced by terraced houses in about 1900.
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Arthur Herbert Rigg was born and lived in Bradford. He was an art dealer working in Swan Parade, Bradford, but also painted landscapes and rural genre in oil.
He was, in 1883, joint Hon. Secretary of the Bradford Art Guild, formed in that year, and was a founder member of the Yorkshire Union of Artists (YUA). He exhibited his work with the YUA, and outside Yorkshire with the Royal Academy, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, Royal Society of British Artists and Royal Hibernian Academy. His work can be found today with public collections at Bradford and at the Birmingham Art Gallery.
He was the brother of Ernest Higgins Rigg (1868-1947). A Staithes Group Artist.
Another brother, Alfred, born in Holbeck, Leeds also became a fine art dealer, and exhibited his work at the Royal Academy and elsewhere.
Internal Reference: WGB
Antique Number: SA598613
Dateline of this antique is Victorian
Height is 103cm (40.6inches)
Width is 78cm (30.7inches)
Depth is 13cm (5.1inches)
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