Tradition - Modern figurative painting in Britain

Exhibition E-Catalogue

A small but perfectly formed collection of fine paintings by some of Britain’s most talented representational painters in the modern impressionist style. This is by no means an attempt at an exhaustive survey of the genre but a timely reminder that this style, promoted so ably by the Federation of British Artists at the Mall Galleries, is very much alive and kicking in today’s art world.

Those art buyers who can remember the heady days of the 1980s and early 1990s will need no convincing of the relevance and quality of the work embodied in what we think of as ‘New English’ painting. What can be disturbing is that many in the subsequent generation, who came to art awareness under the glare of the YBA’s, might be led to believe that the Saatchi artists were the only game in town.

The painters in this exhibition are the current representatives of a proud tradition of British painting. Their roots lie in the French Impressionism that influenced the early New English Art Club members, who experiencing it at first hand evolved their own interpretation. This strain of impressionism, complete with a suitably British restraint of palette and deftness of brush stroke runs through nearly a century and a half of painting. The work of Singer Sargent, Wilson Steer, Sickert, and Augustus John would still hang comfortably today in the Mall Galleries’ annual exhibitions.

There is some irony in the New English Art Club’s supposed position as a bastion of artistic tradition against an unruly, cutting edge Royal Academy. A century ago the situation was reversed. Although there the similarity ends, the Royal Academy is not currently espousing any art movement as earth shattering as Impressionism and the New English is far from stuffy and retrograde. Far from it, the Mall Societies tend towards the bohemian and hold artistic integrity above any tradition for its own sake.

All art, of quality, has its place. Currently the public perception of British art is skewed, the prevailing media love affair with the aging YBA’s has led to an imbalance that eventually, history tells us, the shifting sands of fashion will redress.

25 June - 11 July 2014

Panter & Hall
11-12 Pall Mall
London
SW1Y 5LU

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Monday to Friday

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

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Susan Ryder RP NEAC

Gilt Chairs

oil on canvas

20 x 15 ins (51 x 38 cms)

£2,400

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Richard Pikesley RWS PPNEAC

Orange Bucket, Lyme Regis

oil on board

12 x 20 ins (30 x 51 cms)

£1,600

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Tom Coates PPRP RWS RBA PPNEAC

Self Portrait in the Studio

oil on canvas

30 x 26 ins (76 x 66 cms)

£3,500

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Michael Alford

Chelsea Reach

oil on canvas over board

18 x 33 ins (46 x 84 cms)

£1,850

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Michael Alford

Blackfriars

oil on canvas over board

18 x 33 ins (46 x 84 cms)

£1,850

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Michael Alford

Westminster Sunset

oil on canvas

30 x 40 ins (76 x 102 cms)

£1,950

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Michael Alford

Aldwych / Bush House

oil on canvas over board

24 x 48 ins (61 x 122 cms)

£2,550

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Michael Alford

Drury Lane

oil on board

34 x 24 ins (86 x 61 cms)

£2,150

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Richard Pikesley RWS PPNEAC

St. Paul's, Light & Shadow

oil on board

8 x 15 ins (20 x 38 cms)

£1,000

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Richard Pikesley RWS PPNEAC

Spring Tide and Spotty Dog, West Bay

oil on board

5 x 16 ins (13 x 41 cms)

£800

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Richard Pikesley RWS PPNEAC

Weymouth Quay & 'Pelican'

oil on canvas

14 x 18 ins (36 x 46 cms)

£1,600

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David Sawyer

Sunset, Salisbury Plain

oil on canvas

6 x 8 ins (15 x 20 cms)

£1,000

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David Sawyer

Two Gondolas, Sunset, Venice

oil on canvas

6 x 8 ins (15 x 20 cms)

£950

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David Sawyer

The Fish Market, Venice

oil on canvas

16 x 24 ins (41 x 61 cms)

£2,950

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David Sawyer

Sunlight across the facade, Santa Maria della Salute

oil on canvas

20 x 24 ins (51 x 61 cms)

£4,000

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David Sawyer

Towards Salute, the Grand Canal Venice

oil on canvas

16 x 22.5 ins (41 x 57 cms)

£2,850

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Robert E Wells NEAC RBA

London Eye

oil on canvas

5.5 x 7.5 ins (14 x 19 cms)

£895

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Robert E Wells NEAC RBA

Belvedere late evening

oil on canvas

13 x 13 ins (33 x 33 cms)

£1,550

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Peter Kuhfeld

Late Morning Venice

oil on board

10 x 24 ins (25 x 61 cms)

£3,450

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Ken Howard OBE RA

Female Nude with Daffodils

oil on canvas

24 x 20 ins (61 x 51 cms)

£9,500

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John Martin RBA

Under the Bridge at Roquebrun

oil on board

8 x 10 ins (20 x 25 cms)

£850

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John Martin RBA

The Harbour - Ars - en Re

oil on canvas

12 x 10 ins (30 x 25 cms)

£925

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John Martin RBA

Brighton - Misty Morning

oil on canvas over board

6 x 22 ins (15 x 56 cms)

£1,650

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John Martin RBA

French Kitchen

oil on canvas over board

13.75 x 15.75 ins (35 x 40 cms)

£1,800

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John Martin RBA

Brighton Studio

oil on canvas

41 x 26 ins (104 x 66 cms)

£9,500

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Jane Corsellis RWS RCA NEAC

Roses in a Glass Vase

oil on canvas

40 x 30 ins (102 x 76 cms)

£4,850

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Julian Bailey

Figures by the Sea

oil on board

10 x 11 ins (25 x 28 cms)

£2,400

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Fred Cuming RA NEAC

The salvation Army band, Dartmouth

oil on board

24 x 30 ins (61 x 76 cms)

£8,000

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Fred Cuming RA NEAC

Fowey Evening

oil on board

20 x 24 ins (51 x 61 cms)

£8,500

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Susan Ryder RP NEAC

The Kitchen Table

oil on canvas

20 x 15 ins (51 x 38 cms)

£2,300

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