John Pedder R.I.
(1850–1929) was a British landscape painter born in Liverpool. He attended the
Liverpool School of Art and the Liverpool Academy of Arts, later offering
tuition there. After a brief period working in a shipping office, he pursued
painting professionally. In 1883, he married Lydia Eastwood and moved to
London, eventually settling in Maidenhead, Berkshire, where he established his
studio. He was a friend of artist George Clausen, whose plein-air (outdoor)
rural naturalist style influenced his own work. Pedder became a member of the
Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours in 1898(RI) and the Liverpool Society of
Painters in Watercolours, exhibiting widely at venues like the Royal Academy
and the Walker Art Gallery. His works are held in several UK public
collections, including the Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool), the Williamson Art
Gallery (Birkenhead), Torre Abbey Museum (Torquay), Wycombe Museum, and the
Lytham St Annes Art Collection.
I have acquired a number
of landscape watercolours by John Pedder. This listing is for a single artwork, as detailed below
Medium:
Watercolour on wove paper applied to card
Signature: Signed lower left
Condition:
Reasonable/used condition with age toning, a handful of faint foxing spots and other surface marks / blemishes / graphite smudges. other toning marks to the margins, so the first image illustrates how much of the painting to display within a cut mount.
Framing: Unframed
Painting size: Total paper size 39cm x 27cm.
Provenance: By decent, from the collection of the artist's Great-Grandson.