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Sir Ernest George RA PRIBA Pr.Italian Watercolours
We are delighted to offer this pair of beautiful, subtly toned, watercolours of the Italian Riviera by the celebrated architect and watercolourist Sir Ernest George. The artist has entitled, signed and dated 1907, both of the watercolours and also, on the reverse of the old backing board has written ' With kind regards to Lord Berkeley Christmas 1907.' Both the backing boards bear the Fine Art Society Labels, a gallery of choice for the artist and somewhere he exhibited over 760 watercolours.
The paintings depict views of Camogli, near Gerona and Port Venere, Spezia, with their pastel coloured houses along the edge of the Ligurian Sea.
Sir Ernest George RA RBA RE PRIBA, (13 June 1839 – 8 December 1922) was a British architect, landscape and architectural watercolourist, and etcher.
Born in London, Ernest George began his architectural training in 1856, under Samuel Hewitt, coupled with studies at the Royal Academy Schools 1857–59. After a short period in the office of Allen Boulnois, he went on a sketching tour of France and Germany, which inspired him to the architectural style that would make him famous.
On his return to London, he set up an architectural practice in 1861 with Thomas Vaughan. They had their breakthrough in 1869, when Ernest George was contacted by the tea and spice importer and Member of Parliament Henry Peek (son of James Peek who started the biscuit business Peak Frean & Co). He was about to buy the village of Rousdon in Devon, and wanted George to build him a large mansion house south of the village, plus several other buildings. This complex became eventually known as the Rousdon Estate, and from 1930 to 1998 the George-designed mansion house served as the private boarding school Allhallows College.
Vaughn suddenly died in 1869, forcing George to find another partner. He chose the young Harold Peto, mainly because of the Peto family's vast contact network in the building industry. During this partnership, George designed houses in London for the Cadogan Estate in Chelsea and Kensington. In 1881 they designed Stoodleigh Court at Tiverton for Thomas Carew. In 1891 they designed an extension to West Dean House for William James, creating the Oak Room, now Oak Hall in West Dean College.
In 1891, Harold Peto decided to leave London for health reasons, and to devote more time to his interests in garden design, at which point George made a former pupil, Alfred Bowman Yeates, his new partner.
In New Zealand, which he never visited, he designed the Theomin family house Olveston in Dunedin which was built 1904–07.
He was also responsible for the current Southwark Bridge (1921), and the Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice in London's Postman's Park.
He served as president of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1908 to 1910.
Ernest George's London office was nicknamed "The Eton of architects", and the 79 pupils included Herbert Baker, Guy Dawber, John Bradshaw Gass, Edwin Lutyens and Ethel Charles. Ethel Charles was the first woman to be elected a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
George died in London at 71 Palace Court, Bayswater, in 1922 aged 83 and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium, of which he and Alfred Yeates had been the architects and where the Ernest George Columbarium is named for him.
George's residence at 17 Bartholomew St, London Borough of Southwark is commemorated with a Southwark Council blue plaque.
Buildings by Ernest George
Rousdon House (for Sir Henry Peek of Peek Freans became Allhallows School in 1938) Rousdon, Devon (1870)
1-8 Collingham Gardens, Earls Court, London (1881–84)
4 & 6 Thornlaw Road, West Norwood, London (1882)
Ossington Hotel, Newark (1882)
Shockerwick House, Bathford, Somerset including wings, lodge and 'The Clock House' (1896)
Cawston Manor & Water Tower Cawston, Norfolk (1897)
Golders Green Crematorium, London (1902)
Eynsham Hall, Oxfordshire (1904–08)
Olveston, Dunedin, New Zealand for David Theomin (1903)
Ruckley GrangeTong, Shropshire (1904)
Bushridge Hall, Godalming, Surrey (1906)
Crathorne Hall, North Yorkshire (1906–09)
Putteridge Bury, Lilley, Hertfordshire (1911)
Royal Academy of Music, London, (1911)
Painting
George painted in England, Belgium, Holland, France, Germany and Italy.
An album with pencil-sketches of townscapes in Ostend, Belgium is kept in the Kunstmuseum aan Zee there.
Personal Life
Ernest George married Mary Allen nee Burn in 1866 and they had four children, two sons and two daughters. Sadly his wife died at the age of 34 in 1877 and he never remarried. His sister Mary Elizabeth George lived with him to housekeep and help bring up the children with the aid of several servants.
He is listed in The Dictionary of British Artists (Collectors' Club), The Dictionary of Victorian Painters by Christopher Wood, The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists by Mallalieu and The Dictionary of British Artist by Grant M. Waters He exhibited from 1859, mainly in London, 760 at the Fine Art Society, 43 at the Royal Acadentm 19 at the RBA, 17 at the RE, 14 at the RHA etc. Examples of his watercolours may be found at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Doncaster AG, Leeds AG, Maidstone Museum, and Ulster Museum and online.
The paintings have been newly diouble mounted in two-tone acid-free mountboard and have been newly framed in a 1 1/4" gilt frame to suit. They will be supplied with new brass hangers, new brass picture wire and wil be ready to hang.
Image size: 11 1/2" x 8" - 29.25cm x 20.25cm
Frame size: 19 1/8" x 15 3/4" 48.55cm x 40cm
Medium: Watercolours
Condition: Very good. There is no foxing or damage. The watercolours have not only been remounted and reframed, but also rebacked, due to the old backing board having woodworm. This has been treated, but, as the provenance of the artist's inscription to Lord Berkeley is on them, we will supply them to the purchaser.
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The paintings depict views of Camogli, near Gerona and Port Venere, Spezia, with their pastel coloured houses along the edge of the Ligurian Sea.
Sir Ernest George RA RBA RE PRIBA, (13 June 1839 – 8 December 1922) was a British architect, landscape and architectural watercolourist, and etcher.
Born in London, Ernest George began his architectural training in 1856, under Samuel Hewitt, coupled with studies at the Royal Academy Schools 1857–59. After a short period in the office of Allen Boulnois, he went on a sketching tour of France and Germany, which inspired him to the architectural style that would make him famous.
On his return to London, he set up an architectural practice in 1861 with Thomas Vaughan. They had their breakthrough in 1869, when Ernest George was contacted by the tea and spice importer and Member of Parliament Henry Peek (son of James Peek who started the biscuit business Peak Frean & Co). He was about to buy the village of Rousdon in Devon, and wanted George to build him a large mansion house south of the village, plus several other buildings. This complex became eventually known as the Rousdon Estate, and from 1930 to 1998 the George-designed mansion house served as the private boarding school Allhallows College.
Vaughn suddenly died in 1869, forcing George to find another partner. He chose the young Harold Peto, mainly because of the Peto family's vast contact network in the building industry. During this partnership, George designed houses in London for the Cadogan Estate in Chelsea and Kensington. In 1881 they designed Stoodleigh Court at Tiverton for Thomas Carew. In 1891 they designed an extension to West Dean House for William James, creating the Oak Room, now Oak Hall in West Dean College.
In 1891, Harold Peto decided to leave London for health reasons, and to devote more time to his interests in garden design, at which point George made a former pupil, Alfred Bowman Yeates, his new partner.
In New Zealand, which he never visited, he designed the Theomin family house Olveston in Dunedin which was built 1904–07.
He was also responsible for the current Southwark Bridge (1921), and the Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice in London's Postman's Park.
He served as president of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1908 to 1910.
Ernest George's London office was nicknamed "The Eton of architects", and the 79 pupils included Herbert Baker, Guy Dawber, John Bradshaw Gass, Edwin Lutyens and Ethel Charles. Ethel Charles was the first woman to be elected a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
George died in London at 71 Palace Court, Bayswater, in 1922 aged 83 and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium, of which he and Alfred Yeates had been the architects and where the Ernest George Columbarium is named for him.
George's residence at 17 Bartholomew St, London Borough of Southwark is commemorated with a Southwark Council blue plaque.
Buildings by Ernest George
Rousdon House (for Sir Henry Peek of Peek Freans became Allhallows School in 1938) Rousdon, Devon (1870)
1-8 Collingham Gardens, Earls Court, London (1881–84)
4 & 6 Thornlaw Road, West Norwood, London (1882)
Ossington Hotel, Newark (1882)
Shockerwick House, Bathford, Somerset including wings, lodge and 'The Clock House' (1896)
Cawston Manor & Water Tower Cawston, Norfolk (1897)
Golders Green Crematorium, London (1902)
Eynsham Hall, Oxfordshire (1904–08)
Olveston, Dunedin, New Zealand for David Theomin (1903)
Ruckley GrangeTong, Shropshire (1904)
Bushridge Hall, Godalming, Surrey (1906)
Crathorne Hall, North Yorkshire (1906–09)
Putteridge Bury, Lilley, Hertfordshire (1911)
Royal Academy of Music, London, (1911)
Painting
George painted in England, Belgium, Holland, France, Germany and Italy.
An album with pencil-sketches of townscapes in Ostend, Belgium is kept in the Kunstmuseum aan Zee there.
Personal Life
Ernest George married Mary Allen nee Burn in 1866 and they had four children, two sons and two daughters. Sadly his wife died at the age of 34 in 1877 and he never remarried. His sister Mary Elizabeth George lived with him to housekeep and help bring up the children with the aid of several servants.
He is listed in The Dictionary of British Artists (Collectors' Club), The Dictionary of Victorian Painters by Christopher Wood, The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists by Mallalieu and The Dictionary of British Artist by Grant M. Waters He exhibited from 1859, mainly in London, 760 at the Fine Art Society, 43 at the Royal Acadentm 19 at the RBA, 17 at the RE, 14 at the RHA etc. Examples of his watercolours may be found at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Doncaster AG, Leeds AG, Maidstone Museum, and Ulster Museum and online.
The paintings have been newly diouble mounted in two-tone acid-free mountboard and have been newly framed in a 1 1/4" gilt frame to suit. They will be supplied with new brass hangers, new brass picture wire and wil be ready to hang.
Image size: 11 1/2" x 8" - 29.25cm x 20.25cm
Frame size: 19 1/8" x 15 3/4" 48.55cm x 40cm
Medium: Watercolours
Condition: Very good. There is no foxing or damage. The watercolours have not only been remounted and reframed, but also rebacked, due to the old backing board having woodworm. This has been treated, but, as the provenance of the artist's inscription to Lord Berkeley is on them, we will supply them to the purchaser.
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Date 1907
Edwardian Antiques Material Paper
Origin English
Artist Sir Ernest George
Item code as237a2002
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Kent
England, UK
Tel : 01622 812556
Non UK callers : +44 1622 812556
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