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Augustus William Enness. "Martiques, France". Townscape Oil Painting.
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Augustus William Enness. "Martiques, France". Townscape Oil Painting.

1900 - 1920
Description

Artist: Augustus William Enness. (1876-1948).

Title: "Martiques, France".

Inscribed with title and name on old exhibition label to the reverse.

Medium: Oil on canvas laid onto panel.

Size: 15" x 20". (picture size in inches). Framed size: 21 1/4"x 26 1/4".

Signed with monogram lower left and dated 1924.

Provenance: Private collection.With David Duggleby, 9th June 2008.

Now cleaned and framed.

In very good ready to hang condition. Free UK Delivery.

Trade enquiries welcome.

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Augustus William Enness

1876 - 1948

Augustus William Enness studied at the Slade School of Art and the Academie Julian in Paris. He was a landscape painter and worked in oils, depicting many rural scenes of Southern England, especially in Sussex and Suffolk. He also painted Continental views and scenes in the Lake District.

Exhibited: Salon des Artistes, Paris, Royal Academy, Royal Institute of British Artists, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Art.

Born in Essex on February 12, 1876, He worked from an address in Whitby, Yorkshire between 1905 and 1915 when he moved to St. John’s Wood in London where he remained until 1937.

Enness exhibited 190 times, including 9 at the Royal Academy, 43 at the Royal Society of British Artists and 40 at the Royal Society of Oil Painters. He was elected an Associate member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1923 and became a full member in 1925.

His work shows the change in style between the late Victorian period and the British Post Impressionist movement which concentrated on light and atmosphere.

Physical Dimensions
Height
54cm (21.26")
Width
67cm (26.38")
Depth
5cm (1.97")
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William Greenwood Fine Art has dated this French Harbour Oil Painting to the 1920s.

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Description
Artist: Augustus William Enness. (1876-1948).

Title: "Martiques, France".

Inscribed with title and name on old exhibition label to the reverse.

Medium: Oil on canvas laid onto panel.

Size: 15" x 20". (picture size in inches). Framed size: 21 1/4"x 26 1/4".

fig 1. An impressionist oil painting depicting small wooden fishing boats moored in a calm French harbour in front of light stone buildings.
fig 1. Augustus William Enness. "Martiques, France". Townscape Oil Painting.

Signed with monogram lower left and dated 1924.

Provenance: Private collection.With David Duggleby, 9th June 2008.

Now cleaned and framed.

In very good ready to hang condition. Free UK Delivery.

Trade enquiries welcome.

fig 2. An impressionist oil painting depicting small wooden fishing boats moored in a calm French harbour in front of light stone buildings.
fig 2. Augustus William Enness. "Martiques, France". Townscape Oil Painting.

For more info please contact us at:

Tel: 01677 424830

Mob: 07885 175279

Email: williamgreenwoodfineart@gmail.com

Augustus William Enness

1876 - 1948

Augustus William Enness studied at the Slade School of Art and the Academie Julian in Paris.

He was a landscape painter and worked in oils, depicting many rural scenes of Southern England, especially in Sussex and Suffolk.
William Greenwood Fine Art

He also painted Continental views and scenes in the Lake District.

fig 3. An impressionist oil painting depicting small wooden fishing boats moored in a calm French harbour in front of light stone buildings.
fig 3. Augustus William Enness. "Martiques, France". Townscape Oil Painting.

Exhibited: Salon des Artistes, Paris, Royal Academy, Royal Institute of British Artists, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Art.

Born in Essex on February 12, 1876, He worked from an address in Whitby, Yorkshire between 1905 and 1915 when he moved to St. John’s Wood in London where he remained until 1937.

fig 4. An impressionist oil painting depicting small wooden fishing boats moored in a calm French harbour in front of light stone buildings.
fig 4. Augustus William Enness. "Martiques, France". Townscape Oil Painting.

Enness exhibited 190 times, including 9 at the Royal Academy, 43 at the Royal Society of British Artists and 40 at the Royal Society of Oil Painters. He was elected an Associate member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1923 and became a full member in 1925.

His work shows the change in style between the late Victorian period and the British Post Impressionist movement which concentrated on light and atmosphere.

Height
54cm (21.26")
Width
67cm (26.38")
Depth
5cm (1.97")
Date of Manufacture

William Greenwood Fine Art has dated this French Harbour Oil Painting to the 1920s.

Reference Numbers
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SA917551
Dealers Internal Ref
wgb
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Impressionist townscapes focus on capturing transient light, atmospheric conditions, and daily life using visible brushstrokes and a brightened palette. Originating in late nineteenth-century France, artists painted en plein air to record immediate visual impressions of coastal waters, architecture, and working boats.

Artists typically painted with oil pigments bound with linseed or walnut oil onto stretched linen or cotton canvas. Frames were made of carved wood or gessoed plaster, while the canvas surface was prepared with a gesso primer prior to paint application.

Authenticity is evaluated through artist signatures, period-appropriate stretcher construction, natural craquelure across the paint surface, and physical evidence of age on the canvas reverse. Pigment analysis and provenanced exhibition labels on the frame also help confirm origin.

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