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J.d. Walker. "Ilkley, Yorkshire". Landscape Watercolour.
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J.d. Walker. "Ilkley, Yorkshire". Landscape Watercolour.

1900 - 1920
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Artist: John Dobby Walker. (1866-1925). Bradford.

Title: "A Distant view of Ilkley, Wharfedale, Yorkshire".

Signed. Circa 1910. Watercolour.

Size: 10 1/2"x 14 1/2". Framed size: 19 1/2"x 23 1/2".

See SA913283, SA914114, and SA914680 for similar paintings by the artist. All the same size and frame.

Cleaned and framed. In very good ready to hang condition. Free UK delivery.Trade enquiries welcome.

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Email: williamgreenwoodfineart@gmail.com

John Dobby Walker (1863-1925) was a painter born in Bradford who started his working career as a coach trimmer and painter at Sheethams, a local coach building firm. His first piece of art work was painting a crest on a carriage. He studied painting at the Bradford Church Institute and, following a spell as an art teacher, devoted his time to painting, mainly landscape views.

In addition to his work in England and Scotland, he visited Holland, Spain, Italy, painting scenes from his travels, and he exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour and at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. The Dowager Empress of Russia bought two of his paintings from a Royal Academy show. The Bradford Museums and Galleries collection also acquired his work at one time, and it can be found in the collection of Richmond Town Hall, North Yorkshire. The artist was ‘very much inspired by Yorkshire – particularly scenes around Bradford’.

Walker’s fine draughtsmanship and good sense of colour are especially evident in pictures of his own neighbourhood around Eccleshill, Woodland Hills and other parts of the former West Riding … He was a master of capturing the character and atmosphere of local landscapes.

he artist spent his last years around Kilburn, North Yorkshire, where many of his later watercolours were painted. He died in July 1925 and was buried at Nab Wood Cemetery, Shipley.

Physical Dimensions
Height
49.5cm (19.49")
Width
59.5cm (23.43")
Depth
1cm (0.39")
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William Greenwood Fine Art has dated this Yorkshire Landscape Watercolour Painting to the 1910s.

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SA914838
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Description
Artist: John Dobby Walker. (1866-1925). Bradford.

Title: "A Distant view of Ilkley, Wharfedale, Yorkshire".

Signed. Circa 1910. Watercolour.

Size: 10 1/2"x 14 1/2". Framed size: 19 1/2"x 23 1/2".

See SA913283, SA914114, and SA914680 for similar paintings by the artist. All the same size and frame.

fig 1. A watercolour painting depicting leafy green trees framing a distant view of rolling hills, a valley, and a church spire in Yorkshire.
fig 1. J.d. Walker. "Ilkley, Yorkshire". Landscape Watercolour.

Cleaned and framed. In very good ready to hang condition. Free UK delivery.Trade enquiries welcome.

For more info please contact us at:

Tel: 01677 424830

Mob: 07885 175279

Email: williamgreenwoodfineart@gmail.com

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John Dobby Walker (1863-1925) was a painter born in Bradford who started his working career as a coach trimmer and painter at Sheethams, a local coach building firm.
William Greenwood Fine Art

His first piece of art work was painting a crest on a carriage. He studied painting at the Bradford Church Institute and, following a spell as an art teacher, devoted his time to painting, mainly landscape views.

fig 2. A watercolour painting depicting leafy green trees framing a distant view of rolling hills, a valley, and a church spire in Yorkshire.
fig 2. J.d. Walker. "Ilkley, Yorkshire". Landscape Watercolour.

In addition to his work in England and Scotland, he visited Holland, Spain, Italy, painting scenes from his travels, and he exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour and at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. The Dowager Empress of Russia bought two of his paintings from a Royal Academy show. The Bradford Museums and Galleries collection also acquired his work at one time, and it can be found in the collection of Richmond Town Hall, North Yorkshire. The artist was ‘very much inspired by Yorkshire – particularly scenes around Bradford’.

fig 3. A watercolour painting depicting leafy green trees framing a distant view of rolling hills, a valley, and a church spire in Yorkshire.
fig 3. J.d. Walker. "Ilkley, Yorkshire". Landscape Watercolour.

Walker’s fine draughtsmanship and good sense of colour are especially evident in pictures of his own neighbourhood around Eccleshill, Woodland Hills and other parts of the former West Riding … He was a master of capturing the character and atmosphere of local landscapes.

he artist spent his last years around Kilburn, North Yorkshire, where many of his later watercolours were painted. He died in July 1925 and was buried at Nab Wood Cemetery, Shipley.

Height
49.5cm (19.49")
Width
59.5cm (23.43")
Depth
1cm (0.39")
Date of Manufacture

William Greenwood Fine Art has dated this Yorkshire Landscape Watercolour Painting to the 1910s.

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Traditional British watercolour painting developed as a prominent art movement in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, characterised by fluid washes, translucent pigments, and delicate brushwork to capture natural topography and atmospheric light.

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