Graham Reed Fine Art has dated this Victorian Landscape Watercolour Painting to the 1890s.
Born in Edinburgh,the elder son of the four children of a chemist and surgeon-dentist by his first wife.Encouraged by his mother in his lifelong passion for art and music,he began to board at Irvine Royal Academy ,Ayrshire,at the age of eight,and there received his first formal drawing lessons from Mr White.Going on to Edinburgh University to read surgery and dentistry,he found time to study oil painting with James Ferguson.He then moved to Leicester to perfect the mechanical branch of dentistry under the surgeon-dentist,Mr Williamson.While there he took lessons from John Burgess of Leamington and began to produce paintings for exhibition based on sketches that he made on his travels.’Near Milford,Surrey’ watercolour signed and dated 1892.This superb exhibition quality watercolour is housed in its original restored and regilded period frame inscribed on the original back board with the title.
Graham Reed Fine Art has dated this Victorian Landscape Watercolour Painting to the 1890s.
Previously I worked in london as a chartered surveyor and have been dealing in paintings for nearly thirty years.
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James Orrock Watercolour ‘ Near Milford,surrey ‘
