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Country of origin: Canada
Medium: Oil on panel
Signed: Signed lower left
Dated: 1896
Condition: Very good original condition
Size: 11.00" x 14.00" (27.9cm x 35.6cm)
Framed Size: 17.00" x 20.00" (43.2cm x 50.8cm)
Provenance: Private collection - France
1947
Oil on canvas
£5,850.00
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La Plage a Soorts-Hossegor
by Maurice Brianchon
c. 1910
Oil on board
£6,450.00
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Port d’Honfleur
by Henri Lienard De Saint Delis
c. 1900
Oil on canvas
£5,650.00
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Sunrise – Les-Sables-d’Olonne
by Georges Philibert Charles Maroniez
c. 1880
Oil on panel
£4,650.00
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Bateaux sur la mer – le soir
by Alfred Emile Leopold Stevens
1960
Oil on canvas
£7,950.00
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Romeo de Ravenne
by Camille Hilaire
c. 1890
Oil on panel
£3,450.00
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Windmills on the Normandy coast
by Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemet
c. 1920
Oil on panel
£7,950.00
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Figures on the beach – Yport
by Andre Devambez
1980
Oil on canvas
£4,950.00
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Vieux palais sur la canal – Venice
by Camille Hilaire
1907
Oil on canvas
£43,000.00
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Bord De Mer
by Willy Schlobach
c. 1920
Oil on canvas
£5,250.00
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Voilliers sur la cote
by Georges D'Espagnat
c. 1880
Oil on panel
£12,950.00
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Visite de l’escadre a Toulon
by Felix Francois Georges Philbert Ziem
c. 1920
Oil on board
£1,750.00
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Moored Boats – Martigues
by Georges Lapchine
Born 1859, in Hamilton (Ontario); died 1906, in Sweden.
Painter, watercolourist. Portraits, landscapes.
William Blair Bruce studied under Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury. Between 1883 to 1885, he worked at the Barbizon School, from where he sent several works to the Royal Academy, London. He also painted in Grez-sur-Loing and was one of the first American's to set up a studio in Giverny (1887-1888). He married a Swedish artist, Caroline Benedicks and in 1899 the couple went to live in Sweden. He exhibited his paintings at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris, especially, in 1900: Portrait of Chief Xien-da, Redskin of Canada; and in 1905: Portrait of Chief Red Cloud, Iroquois Redskin.
Group Exhibitions
2007, Giverny Impressionniste: une Colonie d'Artistes, 1885-1915, Musée d'Art Américain, Terra Foundation for American Art, Giverny
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Hamilton (AG): The Phantom of the Snow (188, oil on canvas); Agreeable Meeting (1893, oil on canvas)
Oshawa (Robert McLaughlin Gal.): The Stream at Giverny (c. 1887)
Ottawa (Nat. Gal. of Canada): Bathing Woman, Capri (1890, oil on canvas); The Smiths (1894, oil on canvas); Joy of the Nereids (1896, oil on canvas)
Paris (Mus. d'Orsay): Marine (1889, oil on canvas)
Bibliography
Newlands, Anne: Canadian Art: From its Beginnings to 2000, Firefly Books, Willowdale, 2000.
Gehmacher, Arlene: William Blair Bruce: Painting for Posterity, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, 2000.