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Country of origin: England
Medium: Oil on canvas
Signed: Signed lower right
Dated: c. 1920
Condition: Relined c. 1980 - very good ready to hang condition
Size: 50.00" x 40.00" (127.0cm x 101.6cm)
Framed Size: 56.00" x 46.00" (142.2cm x 116.8cm)
Provenance:
Original artists label verso
Christie's - London
c. 1910
Oil on panel
£28,000.00
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Appareilleurs
by Maximilien Luce
1955
Oil on original canvas
£16,500.00
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Salon des arts menagers – 1955
by Jacques Martin-Ferrieres
1881
Oil on canvas
£79,500.00
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Le peintre en plein air
by Charles Theophile Angrand
1924
Oil on paper laid on panel
£5,950.00
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Dimanche
by Paul Elie Gernez
1932
Oil on board
£6,500.00
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Evening in Paris
by Louis Hayet
c. 1900
Oil on panel
£2,550.00
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Pierrot aux bonnet noir
by Armand Francois Henrion
1918
Oil on original canvas
£51,000.00
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Portrait of a Girl
by Alfredo Guttero
1915
Oil on panel
£2,650.00
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The Great War – Soldier & horse on a road
by Andre Devambez
1915
Oil on panel
£2,650.00
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Le Café de la Place Blanche
by Elie Anatole Pavil
1903
Oil on board laid on canvas
£28,000.00
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Le Manege
by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tarkhoff
c. 1930
Oil on board
£4,950.00
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Nu dans les nuages
by Albert BraÏtou-Sala
c. 1975
Oil on canvas
£8,950.00
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Jeune bretonne dans l’atelier Dyf – Arzon
by Marcel Dyf
Rowland Wheelwright was a painter and illustrator. Using a diffuse pastel palette, he depicted equestrian, historical, and maritime scenes.
Born to a family of sheep farmers in 1870 in Ipswich, Australia, he emigrated with his parents to England during the Australian drought of the 1880s. The artist went on to study at St. John's Wood Art School, and the Herkomer School of Art in Bushey from 1891-93. While in school, he became acquainted with painters such as Lucy Kemp-Welch while studying under Sir Hubert von Herkomer. Wheelwright exhibited both at the Royal Academy and the Paris Salon. His principal works include 'Joan of Arc Taken Prisoner', 'The Caravan', 'Enid and Geraint' and 'Don Quixote'. In 1908 Wheelwright married Jane Elizabeth Wheelwright née Stewart.
Although Wheelwright is recorded as a painter of historical and classical subjects, his major passion seems to be that of the heavy working horse. In the period 1900-1920 he produced some outstanding large finely executed canvases of the heavy horse at work.
He was elected to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1906 and also exhibited at the RA, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Fine Art Society, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, National Society of Painters, Sculptors & Printmakers, Paris Salon, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Royal Hibernian Academy and Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours.
In his later years he favoured paintings of bathing figures on Cornish beaches. Examples of his work are in the collections of Bushey Museum and Art Gallery, Cheltenham Art Gallery, Gallery Oldham, Harris Museum and Art Gallery Museums Sheffield and Torre Abbey Historic House and Gallery.