Artist: Frank Lewis Emanuel (British, 1865-1948)
Dedicated to WILLIAM RUSSELL FLINT!
Description: Idyllic impressionist landscape work of a grey day in Marville in St. Malo, on Brittany's coast.
Exceptionally well done & a gift to Emanuel's friend William Russell Flint with dedication on verso!
Incredible detail and light in the picture, look at the diminutive figures walking under the large trees
Provenance: Property of an estate
Signed, top centre
Titled on verso
Also handwritten label on verso, as follows:
"Very best wishes
To Will
From Frank"
Additionally, a further hand written note on verso as follows:
"W. Russell Flint - for my old friend
Frank L. Emanuel, Xmas 1944"
Very Nicely Framed: 46 x 38cm
Lovely silver frame
Inset: 35 x 27cm
I've attached hanging hooks and cord to ensure you can safely hang this painting up :)
Have a pair of these, sold separately, one slightly smaller than the other but in matching silver frames - if you want both, let me know, I'm sure we'll find a suitable arrangement :)
About (courtesy of Wikipedia):
Frank Lewis Emanuel (usually signing as Frank L. Emanuel) (15 September 1865 – 7 May 1948), was a British painter, etcher, teacher and writer.
He was born in Bayswater, London, on 15 September 1865. In his early years, he assisted to University College School, London. Later he studied under Alphonse Legros, at the Slade School of Fine Art, and under William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury at the Académie Julian in Paris.[1] He was a founder and Honorary Secretary of the Society of Graphic Art (SGA), an examiner for the Royal Drawing Society, and a member of the Art Workers' Guild and the Society of Marine Artists.[2] He taught etching at the Central School of Arts & Crafts between 1918 and 1930, and was the author of 'Etching and Etchings: a guide to the technique and to print collection', Pitman, 1930.
His work was often exhibited in several main galleries, including the Royal Academy[1][2] (almost annually for over forty years[3]), the Paris Salon, and in different countries like Australia, Germany, Holland, Japan, or the USA,[1] and was further popularized by his publication as postcards by the well-known firm Raphael Tuck & Sons. He died on 7 May 1948 at St Charles' Hospital, London.
Among other museums, his work can be found in the Tate Gallery,[4] the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[5] the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, the Imperial War Museum, Guildhall Library and the Victoria and Albert Museum.[2]