Elmer Keene - Late 19th Century Charcoal Drawing Loch Awe

Description

Elmer Keene - Original Late 19th Century Charcoal Drawing. Pastel on paper. Inscribed indistinctly on lower corners. Part of a collection of pastel drawings of night-time scenes, some of which are stamped on verso with "Made in France. Expositions Universelles 1855-1900. Medaille de Bronze. Papiers, Cartes, Toiles, Anti-Ponce pour le Pastel. Pl. Eq. Paris. Marques Deposee." These stamps relate to prizes awarded to the paper manufacturer at the nineteenth-century Paris Exhibitions. Inscribed. Condition is typical for a picture of this age including some discolouration. Drawing has a more brown muted tone than shown in photograph. Small tears and indentations around the edge and to the left of the picture as shown.

Ezra ‘Elmer’ Keene was born in Nottinghamshire in 1853 to a Quaker family. During the 1870s he switched from being a miller and baker to being an artist and photographer. Elmer married a Yorkshire girl Eliza Darlow and they had 11 children, four of whom became artists. The family moved to Leicester in 1901; Elmer died there in 1929. He was known for producing a lot of card-friendly work in coastal and rural places, often moonlight scenes.

Size

58 x 30cm (22.8" x 11.8")

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