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Mortimer Luddington Menpes - Original 1914 Etching. In a paper mount sized 37.8 x 28 cm. First proof. Signed and inscribed. On laid. Some foxing as shown in photos.Mortimer Menpes, 1860-1938 . Born in Australia, Menpes first studied at the Adelaide School of Design. With his family, he moved to London in the 1875, and enrolled at the South Kensington School of Design – properly known as the National Art Training School at South Kensington – where he studied under Edward J. Poynter. Menpes held a successful exhibition – dedicated to Whistler – at Dowdeswell’s Gallery, in London, showing 140 paintings and 40 etchings of the tea houses, temples, markets, theatres, street scenes, women and children of Japan. Menpes became an established and popular artist. His early influences continued to shape his art. Without doubt, his most important contribution lay in the rich array of etchings and drypoints he produced of the streets, the buildings and people of Britain, Europe and much further afield, depicted with fascination, but never with condescension.For more information please click here.
Size
17.5 x 14cm (6.9" x 5.5")Sheet: 26 x 20cm (10.2" x 7.9")
