Victor William Ellis

Oil Painting by Victor William Ellis "Gravesend Reach"

1970

Geoffrey Chatten, R.B.A. Born Gorleston 1938 Popular impressionist painter, member of the Royal Society of Artists and Great Yarmouth Society of Artists. Signed and dated (19) ,77 O...

Oil Painting by Alfred Henry Vickers "Near Hamish" Henry Vickers 1836 to 1919 he was a popular painter of rustic and Continental landscapes. He was the grandson of Alfred Vickers sen...

Geoffrey Chatten, R.B.A. Born Gorleston 1938 Popular impressionist painter, member of the Royal Society of Artists and Great Yarmouth Society of Artists. Signed, title inscribed ver...

Oil Painting by William Anslow Thornley "Fresh Water - Thames" flourished 1858- 1904 Popular painter of coastal marines and lived in Kent. Exhibited London, Birmingham and Dublin. O...

Off Portsmouth Harbour 19th century oil , john callow A fine 19th century oil on canvas painting "off Portsmouth harbour " signed and indistinctly dated 1844, the size of the paint...

Edward Henry Eugene Fletcher British, (1857-1945) Shipping in the Pool of London at Dusk with Tower Bridge in the Distance Oil on canvas, signed Image size: 19.5 inches x 29.5 inches Size including frame: 26.75 inches x 36.75 inches An atmospheric painting of ships in the Pool of London at dusk by Edward Henry Eugene Fletcher. A variety of boats are depicted in the scene, including tug boats and barges. In the distance lies the iconic Tower Bridge. The Pool of London is a stretch of the River Thames between Tower Bridge and Limehouse and is divided into two sections, the Upper Pool and the Lower Pool. Edward Henry Eugene Fletcher was a marine artist who was born in Marylebone, London on 23 July 1857 to Robert Henry Fletcher and Julia Pennell. His father worked for the Bengal Pilot Service guiding shipping along the Hooghly River between Calcutta and the Bay of Bengal. After the death of his father in 1862, his mother married the picture dealer Reuben Brooks. He attended the Bradmore House School in Chiswick Lane before enrolling at the Chelsea School of Art, where he became a close friend of the landscape artist Daniel Sherrin. Fletcher initially enlisted in the Army Hospital Corp, serving in Nova Scotia but was invalided out in 1882 at the age of 24 due to an eye condition. His records indicate he was 6ft tall with fair hair and grey eyes. He continued to paint in his spare time and undoubtedly his travels would have inspired his subject matter and given him a deeper knowledge of shipping and the sea. He married Annie Reed Moses in 1886 at Norwich and they lived in Margate before moving back to London to live in Blackheath around 1890. He is widely believed to have set up an auction business during this time to help support his growing family, however , perhaps due to the return of ill health he decided to give it up to focus on painting. Although he did not exhibit, he sold his work mainly through art galleries, possibly aided by his step father. He also used the pseudonym of John Hayes which was probably for contractual reasons. By 1901, he had established himself as a full time artist and was living at Georgette Place in Greenwich with his wife and their 5 children. He later moved to 99 Lee Road, Blackheath where he spent the rest of his life. He died at Blackheath on 23 June, 1945. Much of Fletcher’s work consisted of views of the river Thames or ships in harbours...

John Bentham-Dinsdale (British, 1927-2008), circa 1972. Dinsdale painted the sea and great ships of the era when “Britannia ruled the waves” with her fleets of clipper and fighting s...

This framed 27.25" x 33.25" oil painting on canvas by English artist George Chambers Sr. depicts a large sailboat floating down the Thames River alongside a much smaller paddleboat a...