Dorothea Sharp

Feeding the Chickens

Oil on board Board size: 20 x 16.25 inches Framed size: 26 x 22 inches Signed lower left

Oil on board Board size: 13 x 16 inches Framed size: 18.25 x 21.25 inches Signed with initials lower left

Oil on Board Board size: 20 x 24 inches Framed size: 31.25 x 36.75 inches Signed lower left

Oil on canvas Canvas size: 20.75 x 16 inches Framed size: 26.5 x 22.75 inches Signed lower left

This exquisite early 20th-century oil on panel by Dorothea Sharp captures the timeless and universal bond between mother and child in a tender Impressionist style. Painted circa 1900...

Signed oil on canvas figures in landscape circa 1920 by English impressionist painter Dorothea Sharp. This incredible piece depicts bathers enjoying a day at the beach. In the foreground is a seated woman wearing a hat who is knitting or embroidering, and by her side a baby sleeps on a blanket in the shade of the rocks. Signature: Signed lower left Dimensions: Framed: 22"x26" Unframed: 14"x18" Provenance: Private collection - Australia Dorothea Sharp was a landscape, flower and figurative painter. She studied both in London and in Paris. Dorothea Sharp studied art in Richmond before joining London's Regent Street Polytechnic, where her teachers included David Murray and George Clausen. She also studied in Paris where she was introduced to the work of the Impressionists and in particular Claude Monet. She was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists (from 1907), the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (1922) and the Society of Women Artists (1908). She lived in London, working at studios in Maida Vale. In the 1920s and 1930s she travelled in France, Spain, Portugal and Italy. In 1928 she was appointed an honorary member of the St Ives Society of Artists and from 1940 to 1946 she settled in St Ives, where she produced many plein air paintings of beach scenes...

An original genre work by French artist Gustave Albert Catoire (1845-1880), depicting a peasant woman standing in a farmyard feeding chickens at her feet. The composition is well-pre...

'The Farmyard' is a beautiful example of Calabuig's work capturing the stunning farmyard scene of chicken and cockerel. The beautiful colour palette and attention to detail is what m...