Percy Lancaster RBA RI (1878-1950) - Early 20th Century Etching The Gardener

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Description

A finely detailed etching depicting a gardener with potted plants and a watering can, by the well-listed artist Percy Lancaster (1878-1950). On wove laid to another piece of wove. Signed in the plate.

Condition

The condition is typical for a picture of this age including some discolouration. There is paper and adhesive residue along the upper border, and some surface dirt.

Size

11 x 8.8cm (4.3" x 3.5")
Sheet: 19.4 x 14.4cm (7.6" x 5.7")

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Artist Biography

Percy Lancaster (1878-1951) was born in Manchester in 1878. He studied architecture before taking up painting, studying at the Southport and Manchester Schools of Art. A fine landscape painter in both oils and watercolours, he was also a fine etcher, being elected an Associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in 1910. Four years later he was made a full member of the Royal Society of British Artists and in 1921, member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours.

He exhibited in many of the major institutions and galleries in the UK, including 20 works at the Royal Academy, 60 at the Royal Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers, 12 at the Fine Arts Society, 123 at Liverpool's Walker Gallery, 68 at the Royal Cambrian Academy, 104 at the Royal Society of British Artists and others up and down the country.

Other works by Lancaster have previously sold at both Sotheby's and Christie's in London.

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SKU pq479
Artist Percy Lancaster RBA RI (1878-1950)
Date Early 20th Century
Dimensions 11 x 8.8cm
Medium Etching
Subject Portrait
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