Modern British

Charles Paine

Edward C Prust

Leslie Ernest Parkinson

Peter Gardner

Glyn Philpot

Figurine

William Henry Innes

Summer Flowers

Approaching Train

The Road Works

Portrait of a NCC Soldier

Portrait of a NCC Soldier 2

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Charles Paine

1895 - 1967

An Evening at Home

Gouache, signed mid right

Image size: 2¾ x 2¾ inches

Acid free mount and black frame

Perhaps best known for his iconic London Underground poster designs, commissioned by Frank Pick, Paine's works were also much in demand for other advertising campaigns and book illustrations.

We have a number of Charles Paine originals in stock. Please contact us for more details.

Edward C Prust

1891 - 1978

The Mappin Terraces, London Zoo

Pen and ink, signed top right

Image size: 10 x 13 inches

Framed

Prust was a prolific artist around the time of the Second World War, specialising in scenes of London. He was a student at the Chelmsford School of Science and Art.

His subject here, the Mappin Terraces of London Zoo, were opened in 1913. It originally housed bears, penguins, sheep, goats and wild boar, some of which are depicted in this work. The enclosure is now used for the Australasian species.

Leslie Ernest Parkinson

1903 - 2001

A Willow Tree

Oil on board, initialled and dated 1930 top left

Image size: 10 x 12 inches

Handmade frame

Parkinson was born in Islington in 1903, the son of Arthur and Ann. He married Edith Richardson, the daughter of the England fast bowler Tom Richardson, in 1929. He pursued a career as a civil servant.

Parkinson mainly painted in oils. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters.

Peter Gardner

Flourished: 1949-1979

A London Station

Pastel on Paper Signed with monogram and dated 1975, lower right

Image size: 9 x 12 ½ inches

Acid free mount

Peter Gardner was born in London in 1921.

He studied at the Hammersmith School of Art between 1935 and 1938, before serving in Italy and in the European campaign during WWII. He returned to Hammersmith in 1947, and graduated in 1950. He then attended the London Institute of Education where he was awarded the Art Teacher's Diploma.

Gardner taught art at West Norwood School and became Head of Art at Plaistow Grammar School as well as teaching at Fulham and South Kensington Adult Education Institute. He exhibited at the Trafford Gallery in London in 1965, and then many others, including the Royal Academy, the ROI and the New English Art Club.

He retired from teaching in 1979 and moved to Dorset, where he is still painting today.

Glyn Philpot

1884 - 1937

Salute to the New Year, Cannes

Watercolour

Image size: 12 x 18 inches

Contemporary frame

Exhibited at the Redfern Gallery in 1937, number 54

Philpot was born in Clapham, London, but the family moved to Herne in Kent shortly afterwards. He grew up to be a gay man and a practising Christian who converted to Roman Catholicism.

Philpot studied at the Lambeth School of Art in 1900 where he was taught by Philip Connard, and at the Academie Julian in Paris.

One of the leading portraitists of his day, Philpot became an establishment artist, made wealthy through lucrative commissions. He was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 1923.

However things were to change. In 1933 the Academy rejected his paintings The Great God Pan and Guardian of the Flame because of their explicit sexual content which led to a dramatic downturn in his popularity.

Philpot’s artistic character also changed. Tensions between his public life of strict Christian observance and academic painting, and his private homosexuality, and desire for artistic experiment, precipitated a crisis in his career. He was, primarily, an observer of the human form, and risked public censure by depicting sexuality.

His loss of commissions led to financial hardship for the rest of his life. He died of a stroke in 1937, and his lover, Vivian Forbes, committed suicide the day after his funeral. Philpot is buried in St Peter's churchyard, Petersham.

Mayer

20th Century

Figurine

Oil on board, signed lower right

Image size: 16 x 13 inches

Contemporary frame

William Henry Innes
1905 - 1999

The White Cross Inn, Richmond

Oil on canvas, signed
Image size: 20 x 24 inches
Framed

New English Art Club label to the back and his address for Herne Hill, London

Gordon Scott ARCA
1914 - 2016
Summer Flowers
Oil on canvas
Image size: 17 x 21 inches
Contemporary style frame

Gordon Scott was trained at the Royal College of Art (1934-38) under Gilbert Spencer, Alan Sorrell and Charles Mahoney. In 1938 he was awarded a Travelling Scholarship by the R.C.A. for painting. A reserved and highly principled man, during WWII he was a conscientious objector, stationed at Bulford Camp on Salisbury Plain. His defined role there is unknown, but during his time there he produced a number of sketches and paintings of soldiers and other personnel who passed through the camp.

In 1946 Joseph Dixon, a close friend, asked him to join the staff of Camberwell School of Art where he remained as a part-time teacher until 1980. The two artists lived together after the death of Dixon’s wife in Putney. When Dixon died, Gordon Scott moved up the road and lived at another friend’s house for many years. Scott also had a house in Upper Warlingham, Surrey.

He is remembered and revered by generations of Camberwell students, particularly for his Saturday morning drawing classes amongst the architecturally stunning buildings of London – the Temple Church, the St Pancras hotel and a Nash Terrace being particularly favoured.

Despite a lifelong, dedicated application to painting, Scott was reticent about exhibiting, although he did exhibit at the Royal Academy, the London Group, the Mall Galleries, the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery, and the Cooling Gallery. He did occasionally contribute to group shows, but his work was not seen in any great quantity until 2006, when, having turned 90, he had an exhibition at the Highgate Gallery.

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