Surnames U – Z
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A Vandiest
Title: A Good Winter’s Day (dated 1977)
Medium: Oil on board
Image Size 38 cm (w) X 38 cm (h)
Frame: 58 cm (w) X 58 cm (h) original
Artist’s Details:
Nothing known.
Edward Wolfe RA
Title: Lake landscape
Medium: Oil on Board
Image size 68 cm (w) X 44 cm (h)
Frame size: 84 cm (w) X 60 cm (h) restored
Artist’s Details:
Edward Wolfe RA was born in South Africa in 1897 but came to England and studied at the Slade School from 1916-8. He first showed in 1918 and had a one man show in South Africa in 1920. He returned to London but travelled widely throughout the world painting. He was elected to the RA in 1972. He had an Arts Council retrospective in 1967 and again in 1997. The Tate Gallery and many others public galleries hold his work. The work is signed on the rear and has been professionally cleaned. The frame is very ornate and has been restored but is clearly not “as new”.
Francis H Whittington
Title: Amsterdam (possibly)
Medium: Woodblock print
Image Size 24 cm (w) X 16 cm (h)
Frame: 45 cm (w) X 37 cm (h) new
Artist’s Details:
Francis Whittington is listed in the Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940 but there is very little information given. We know he was a landscape who lived in Hampshire who exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1931 and that is all.
Gerald Walden
Title: Newark Castle
Medium: Oil on board
Image Size 59 cm (w) X 47 cm (h)
Frame: 69 cm (w) X 57 cm (h) new
Artist’s Details:
Nothing known but the label on the rear would suggest he was a British Rail employee who was a member of their art club and exhibited paintings there.
Harold Walsby
Title: Great Gable from Looking Stead
Medium: Pen and watercolour
Image Size 16 cm (w) X 16 cm (h)
Frame: 27 cm (w) X 27cm (h) original
Artist’s Details:
Harold Walsby was born 6 December 1911, probably in Downham Market, Norfolk. He was an artist-painter and a revolutionary socialist in the late 1930s and developed a theory of ideology explaining why the Left, although claiming to represent the interests of the majority, remained in the minority. After his father had died in the First World War he moved with his mother to Tunbridge Wells, where he visited King Charles’ School. Subsequently he worked during 18 months in an engineer’s drawing office and then left for London in the early thirties, where he was to live for about the first twenty years of his adult life. Before the Second World War he was a quite well known figure in Trafalgar Square and an active participant in the intellectual society of the Soho cafes. He earned his living mainly by painting and drawing and other artistic production. For some years he was an educational salesman and publisher and also taught Logic for a year to sociology students at the University of Reading in 1970-1971. The last twenty years he spent in Oxfordshire, the Pennines and the Lake District. Walsby’s book The Domain of Ideologies. A Study of the Origin, Development and Structure of Ideologies was published in 1948. He died 2 May 1973 in Ambleside, Cumbria.
L Ward
Title: Orchard
Medium: Oil on board
Image Size 55 cm (w) X 45 cm (h)
Frame: 64 cm (w) X 54 cm (h) original
Artist’s Details:
I cannot find anything out about the artist.