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Owen Bowen. "Blakeney Harbour". Marine Oil Painting.
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Owen Bowen. "Blakeney Harbour". Marine Oil Painting.

1900 - 1920
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Artist: Owen Bowen. R.O.I., P.R.Cam A. (1873-1967). Member of the Staithes Group of Artists.

Title: "Blakeney Harbour". Norfolk.

Signed. Date circa 1920. Oil on canvas.

Size: 11"x 15". Framed size: 15 1/2"x 19 1/2".

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Now cleaned and framed and in very good ready to hang condition. Free UK delivery. Trade enquiries welcome.

He was educated at Leeds High School and during the evenings studied at Leeds School Of Art under Gilbert Foster who was a pioneer of the art colony at Staithes.

Owen Bowen received his first paint box as a christmas present when he was four. His brother, Miles, provided his initial art training but he soon came under the influence of Gilbert Foster at evening classes in the Leeds School of Art and privately at his studio.

He first exhibited in 1888 at the age of fifteen. The Yorkshire Union of Artists was formed in that year and he was involved at the very outset, winning two medals in the amateur section. At the second annual exhibition, four of his landscapes were hung in prominent positions. A fracas with the secretary during the third annual exhibition resulted in his expulsion at the age of only seventeen.

He had his own studio at eighteen and started exhibiting at the Royal Academy the following year. During the subsequent years, he regularly visited Staithes. To assist these summer activities, he rented a cottage for over ten years at Robin Hood's Bay. He exhibited extensively and mounted two major exhibitions of his own work.

Physical Dimensions
Height
39.5cm (15.55")
Width
49.5cm (19.49")
Depth
5cm (1.97")
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William Greenwood Fine Art has dated this Antique Marine Oil Painting to the 1920s.

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SA979213
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Description
Artist: Owen Bowen. R.O.I., P.R.Cam A. (1873-1967). Member of the Staithes Group of Artists.

Title: "Blakeney Harbour". Norfolk.

Signed. Date circa 1920. Oil on canvas.

Size: 11"x 15". Framed size: 15 1/2"x 19 1/2".

fig 1. An impressionist marine oil painting depicting boats moored in Blakeney Harbour with tall masts against a muted sky and trees in earthy brown tones.
fig 1. Owen Bowen. "Blakeney Harbour". Marine Oil Painting.

For more info please contact us at:

Tel: 01677 424830

Mob: 07885 175279

Email: williamgreenwoodfineart@gmail.com

Now cleaned and framed and in very good ready to hang condition. Free UK delivery. Trade enquiries welcome.

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He was educated at Leeds High School and during the evenings studied at Leeds School Of Art under Gilbert Foster who was a pioneer of the art colony at Staithes.
William Greenwood Fine Art
fig 2. An impressionist marine oil painting depicting boats moored in Blakeney Harbour with tall masts against a muted sky and trees in earthy brown tones.
fig 2. Owen Bowen. "Blakeney Harbour". Marine Oil Painting.

Owen Bowen received his first paint box as a christmas present when he was four. His brother, Miles, provided his initial art training but he soon came under the influence of Gilbert Foster at evening classes in the Leeds School of Art and privately at his studio.

fig 3. An impressionist marine oil painting depicting boats moored in Blakeney Harbour with tall masts against a muted sky and trees in earthy brown tones.
fig 3. Owen Bowen. "Blakeney Harbour". Marine Oil Painting.

He first exhibited in 1888 at the age of fifteen. The Yorkshire Union of Artists was formed in that year and he was involved at the very outset, winning two medals in the amateur section. At the second annual exhibition, four of his landscapes were hung in prominent positions. A fracas with the secretary during the third annual exhibition resulted in his expulsion at the age of only seventeen.

fig 4. An impressionist marine oil painting depicting boats moored in Blakeney Harbour with tall masts against a muted sky and trees in earthy brown tones.
fig 4. Owen Bowen. "Blakeney Harbour". Marine Oil Painting.

He had his own studio at eighteen and started exhibiting at the Royal Academy the following year. During the subsequent years, he regularly visited Staithes. To assist these summer activities, he rented a cottage for over ten years at Robin Hood's Bay. He exhibited extensively and mounted two major exhibitions of his own work.

Height
39.5cm (15.55")
Width
49.5cm (19.49")
Depth
5cm (1.97")
Date of Manufacture

William Greenwood Fine Art has dated this Antique Marine Oil Painting to the 1920s.

Reference Numbers
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SA979213
Dealers Internal Ref
WGB
William Greenwood Fine Art
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British impressionist marine art focuses on capturing fluid light, atmospheric weather, and coastal working life through loose brushwork and tonal colour palettes. Originating in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, artists worked outdoors to record British ports, estuaries, and shipping activities.

Artists during this era typically applied oil paints composed of natural pigments and drying oils onto stretched flax canvas, wooden panels, or millboard. Paint application varied from smooth glazes to heavy impasto applied with palette knives or stiff bristle brushes.

Authentic period works display characteristic craquelure across the paint surface, natural age-related oxidisation on the reverse of the substrate, and artist signatures executed in the original paint layer rather than added later over varnish.

Position the painting as a focal point above a fireplace mantel, sideboard, or within a gallery wall hanging. Muted tonal artwork integrates effectively with neutral wall finishes, dark timber furniture, and contemporary brass accent lighting.

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