George Shalders (British, 1826-1873) “Sunrise with a distant view of Harwich” Oil on Canvas

Fine Art : Paintings : Oil

 

George Shalders (British, 1826-1873); “Sunrise with a distant view of Harwich”; Oil on Canvas; signed lower right; in a gold painted wood frame with title plate; 59 x 44cm (approx 23 x 17ins) sight (visible canvas) size; 68 x 53cm (approx 27 x 21ins) overall frame size.

PROVENANCE: The Parker Gallery, London (label verso)

CONDITION: original canvas (not relined); good impasto; examination under ultraviolet light reveals no sign of retouching or overpainting; reverse of canvas shows signs of previous cleaning; may possibly benefit from further light clean.

BIOGRAPHY: George Shalders was a renowned landscape painter and watercolourist, who lived in Portsmouth and London.

He began to exhibit in London at the Royal Academy and the Society of British Artists in Suffolk Street in 1848. He showed fifteen paintings at the Royal Academy, the last in 1864. In 1863 he became an associate of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours, and a member in 1864, and subsequently he exhibited only there. He painted landscapes, usually views in Hampshire, Surrey, Yorkshire, Wales, and Ireland, often containing cattle or sheep. Reviewing the 1865 exhibition at the New Watercolour Society, in which his Fresh Pasture was exhibited, the critic writing for the Art Journal commented that ‘Sheep are folded and driven to field by Mr Shalders with a truth and beauty which finds no rivals’ (Art Journal, 27, 1 June 1865, 176). Works by him are in the Walker Art Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Shalders died a widower on 27 January 1873 at his home, 10 Berkeley Gardens, Campden Hill, London, leaving three young daughters. His early death was said to have been caused by overwork, following the death of his wife two years earlier.

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Item ID: RL-6020