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.
Reference:
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Buckman “Artists in Britain since 1945, 1998”
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Hassell “Camberwell School of Arts”
Gordon Scott
1914 - 2016
Approaching Train
Pencil on Paper
Image size: 10 x 8 ¾ inches
White Gold Frame
Gordon Noel Scott A.R.C.A
1914 - 2016
The Road Works
Pencil on Paper
Image size: 11 ½ x 11 ¾ inches (29.25 x 29.75cm)
White gold frame
Gordon Noel Scott A.R.C.A
1914 - 2016
Portrait of a NCC Soldier
Pencil on Paper
Image size: 9 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches
Acid free mount
Gordon Noel Scott A.R.C.A
1914 - 2016
Portrait of a NCC Soldier 2
Pencil on Paper
Image size: 9 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches
Acid free mount
Gordon Noel Scott A.R.C.A
1914 - 2016
Portrait of a NCC Soldier 3
Pencil on Paper
Image size: 9 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches
Acid free mount
£400
Gordon Noel Scott A.R.C.A
1914 - 2016
Portrait of a NCC Soldier 4
Pencil on Paper
Image size: 9 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches
Acid free mount
£400
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
Portrait of a NCC Soldier 3
Portrait of a NCC Soldier 4
