Stanley Orchart (1920-2005) - Watercolour Bridge at Arncliffe, Yorkshire

Description

A charming watercolour painting by the artist Stanley Orchart, depicting a landscape scene with a bridge at Arncliffe, Yorkshire. Signed to the lower right-hand corner. There is an artist's label on the reverse. Well-presented in a double washline card mount and in a distressed, speckled gilt effect frame. On watercolour paper.

Condition

Painting in fine condition. Minor marks to the mount and very small scuffs to the frame.

Size

24.9 x 35.5cm (9.8" x 14")
Framed Size: 46.7 x 55.8cm (18.4" x 22")

Artist Biography

Stanley Orchart (1920-2005) was a painter born in Walthamstow, London. He was a landscape artist who worked in watercolours, oils, pen and ink and also made lithographs. Orchart was an engineering student in Leeds and while in that city attended evening classes at Leeds School of Art. Until the late 1950's he worked in the oil industry turning to professional art c.1960. Though often described as working in East Anglia, he also painted in Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire. He was best known for his portrayals of the English countryside in both oils and watercolours. Stanley Orchart lived in Great Staughton, Cambridgeshire and spent most of his life working in Bedfordshire and East Anglia. Examples of his work are held in the collections of Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford, Luton Culture and St. Albans Museums. His work is frequently reproduced as prints and he usually signed his work with his surname and an abbreviated date.