David Mead
1906 - 1986
Wild Violets
Oil on canvas
Image size: 17 x 21 inches
David Mead was born in London but moved to Whitstable in Kent in 1910, at the age of four. Here he had the good fortune to reside next door to the famous landscape painter Daniel Sherrin, from whom he received guidance and encouragement with his painting. His first watercolours were sold when he was only 12.
He continued to paint and study painting, but it was only after his service in the Air Ministry during WWII that he became a full time artist, painting landscapes in oils, predominately featuring trees and quiet pools. He excelled at painting trees.
He was made a Fellow on the Central Institute of Art & Design in 1946. He founded the Medway Art Society and served as its President for four years. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and one of his paintings is in Horsham Museum.A large proportion of his paintings are now in private collections.
Josephine Ghilchik (nee Duddle)
1890 - 1981
A Seaside Town
Oil on canvas, signed lower right
Image size: 16 x 19.5 inches
Framed
Josephine Matley Duddle Ghilchik (1890-1981) was the daughter of James Duddle, a musician and teacher of Lancashire, England, and Ellen, his wife.
Josephine studied at the Municipal School of Art, Manchester, England. In 1915, she married the artist and cartoonist, David Louis Ghilchik, who had been her fellow student. Ghilchik was born in 1892 in Botosani, Romania, but had emigrated to Lancashire with his family.
The Ghilchiks resided in and around London. David Ghilchik died in London, England in 1972. At the age of 90, Josephine emigrated to Australia to be with her daughter, Sybil O'Donoghue (an opera singer), and grand-children. She died the following year.
Carolyn Sergeant
20th Century
Yellow Iris with Forget Me Nots
Oil on board
Image size: 16 x 9 inches
Framed
Carolyn Sergeant studied at Wimbledon School of Art from 1955 to 1959 and at the Royal Academy Schools from 1959 to 1962, where she was a silver medallist. She met her future husband, John Sergeant, at the Royal Academy.
She exhibited all over the United Kingdom, in both solo and mixed shows. In 2003 she held a solo exhibition at the Fine Art Society in London.
20th Century
Procession
Engraving
Image size: 2½ x 9¾ inches
V Ward
American Artillery Soldier
Watercolour and ink
Signed and dated 1918, lower right
Image size: 13½ x 10 inches
V Ward
Bombed Landscape
Watercolour
Signed and dated 1918, bottom right
Image size: 18 x 11 inches
V Ward
Soldier at Rest
Watercolour and pencil
Signed and dated 1918, lower left
Image size: 13 x 11 inches
V Ward
Unknown Officer in Trench Cap
Watercolour and pencil
Signed and dated 1918, lower right
Image size: 12 x 10 inches
V Ward
American Soldier
Watercolour
Signed and dated 1918, lower left
Image size: 12 x 10½ inches
V Ward
Rifleman
Watercolour and ink
Signed and dated 1918, lower right
Image size: 11 x 8 inches
V Ward
Bombed Dwelling
Watercolour and pencil
Signed and dated 1918, lower left
Image size: 13 x 11 inches
William Merrett Hodges
1874 – 1961
The Suffragettes
Oil on canvas, signed bottom left
Image size: 36 x 32 ½ inches
Contemporary style frame
This year 2018 is the centenary of the 1918 Representation of the People Act, the law that gave the first women the right to vote in the UK.
William Merrett Hodges was born in Birmingham and spent much of his life there. He was a Royal Academician, and also a member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. Hodges' profession was photography and he owned a shop on Bearwood High Street, Smethwick, Birmingham.
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Josephine Ghilchik
Carolyn Sargeant
Procession
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William Merrett Hodges
