West Country Pictures
The beauty of the Devon landscape, moorland and coast has attracted artists to the
county over the last two centuries. Equally, the wonderful Cornish light and Cornish
coastal scenery has been a great source of inspiration for artists.
'On The Erme near Ivybridge' by William Williams of Plymouth, which realised £950
at auction. (FS17/454).
The art that has been created in and around the Cornish port of Newlyn, both past
and present, is well-known with Alexander Stanhope Forbes, SJ Lamorna Birch and
Harold Harvey among the leading lights.
William Widgery (1822-1893) - A Wooded River Landscape with Figures (FS17/453) offered
in our Three Day Fine Art Sale starting on 29th January 2013 at our salerooms in
Exeter, Devon and attained £380.
Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood have for many years been privileged to be involved
in valuation work and advice for the art collection at Dartington Hall. Their magnificent
core collection is a small part of a much larger collection assembled by Leonard
and Dorothy Elmhirst who are generally accepted as being the most significant private
patrons of architecture, the Arts and education of their generation in England.
Alfred Leyman (1856-1933) - Cathedral Close, Exeter (FS17/436), which realised £1,500
at auction.
In the 1930s and 40s, the Dartington Hall estate in the west country was home to
many influential artists including Cecil and Elizabeth Collins and Mark Tobey. Artists
with west country roots represented in the Dartington Collection include Ben Nicholson,
Bernard Leach, Alfred Wallis, Christopher Wood and Winifred Nicholson. Bearnes Hampton
& Littlewood continue to sell works by these artists with close connections
to the west country along with work by Terry Frost, Paul Feiler and the Newlyn and
St Ives School painters.
In a more traditional style, the popular west country watercolours by familiar names
like Frederick John Widgery and his father William Widgery, Alfred Leyman, William
Williams of Plymouth, William Traies, Charles E Brittan, Tom Rowden, RD Sherrin
and Shapland together with the large school of Dartmoor artists like Rubens Southey,
WH Dyer and Douglas Houzen Pinder regularly come to our rooms and many are offered
in our weekly pictures sales, generally in the price range of £100-£500.
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