"Ullswater". Robert Leslie Howey. Oil Landscape.

1940 - 1960

Sold by William Greenwood Fine Art

Description

Artist: Robert Leslie Howey. (1900-1981). Seaton Carew.

Title: "Ullswater". The Lake District.

Signed. Circa 1960. Inscribed with the title on the reverse.

Oil on wood. Size: 20"x 24". Framed size: 26 1/2"x 30 1/2". Now cleaned and framed and in very good ready to hang condition. Free UK delivery.

An excellent and strong example of his Lake District paintings.

Robert Leslie Howey was born in 1900 in Hartlepool. He was the son of the Staithes Group artist, John William Howey (1873 – 1938), who – although recognized by his peers as a serious artist – never practiced his art professionally, but remained employed by the gas and water board.__His son, Robert, seems to have had similar equivocations about a career in painting (although when young he cleaned his father’s brushes and befriended other Staithes artists – Rowland Hill and Mark Senior): he did not enter the West Hartlepool School of Art until he was in his thirties. He appears to have started his artistic life by drawing and sketching, visiting local beauty spots such as Runswick Bay and Whitby.

Howey exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy, the Laing Gallery, Newcastle, the Redfern Gallery, London, and other provincial galleries; he also had a solo show in Hartlepool in 1949.

Physical Dimensions

Height

67.5cm (26.57")

Width

77.5cm (30.51")

Depth

8cm (3.15")

Declaration

William Greenwood Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1960s.

Reference Numbers

Sellingantiques Reference

SA629173

Dealers Internal Reference

WGB

Description

Artist: Robert Leslie Howey. (1900-1981). Seaton Carew.

Title: "Ullswater". The Lake District.

Signed. Circa 1960. Inscribed with the title on the reverse.

Oil on wood. Size: 20"x 24". Framed size: 26 1/2"x 30 1/2". Now cleaned and framed and in very good ready to hang condition. Free UK delivery.

fig 1. "Ullswater". Robert Leslie Howey. Oil Landscape.

An excellent and strong example of his Lake District paintings.

Robert Leslie Howey was born in 1900 in Hartlepool. He was the son of the Staithes Group artist, John William Howey (1873 – 1938), who – although recognized by his peers as a serious artist – never practiced his art professionally, but remained employed by the gas and water board.__His son, Robert, seems to have had similar equivocations about a career in painting (although when young he cleaned his father’s brushes and befriended other Staithes artists – Rowland Hill and Mark Senior): he did not enter the West Hartlepool School of Art until he was in his thirties.

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He appears to have started his artistic life by drawing and sketching, visiting local beauty spots such as Runswick Bay and Whitby.

William Greenwood Fine Art

Howey exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy, the Laing Gallery, Newcastle, the Redfern Gallery, London, and other provincial galleries; he also had a solo show in Hartlepool in 1949.