Walter Thomas Watling (1885-1956) - Oil Schwyz, Switzerland

Description

An idyllic view of Schwyz, Switzerland, in bright sunlight, with mountain peaks in the distance. The charming vignette is viewed through an arched balcony with Doric columns. The artist has signed to the lower left corner and the painting has been presented in a contemporary silver and off white frame. There is an inscription at the reverse with the artist's name and address. On wood panel.

Condition

The condition is typical for a picture of this age including some discolouration. The frame has some surface dirtying.

Size

44 x 34cm (17.3" x 13.4")

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Artist Biography

Walter Thomas Watling, was born at St Johns Terrace, Ber Street, Norwich on 4 July 1885, eldest child of Walter Thomas Watling (1861-1 July 1934), an estate carpenter, and his wife Harriett Rachael née Pank (15 March 1861-17 April 1945), who married at Norwich in 1884. In 1901, a 15 year old 'school teacher', living at 78 Olney Street, Heigham, Norwich with his parents, 39 year old Walter and 40 year old Harriett, with two sibling sisters, Ada May 8 and Dorothy Kate 6, and they were still there in 1911 with Walter now a Secondary teacher. A corporal in the Norfolk Regiment during the First World War and married firstly at Norwich on 2 August 1913, Ethel May Codling (1886-1928) and secondly in 1929, Noel Alleyne Gowing née Moore (25 December 1894-1974). Walter was a painting tutor at Norwich School of Art and exhibited at the Ipswich Art Society in 1933 from 'Tree Tops', Thorpe St Andrew, Norwich, an oil 'Half Holiday'. In 1939, an art master in a Secondary School, living at 21 St Andrews Avenue, Blofield, Norwich with his wife Noel. A founder member of the Norwich Twenty Group in 1944 and was of Treetops, St Andrew's Avenue, Thorpe-next-Norwich when he died at The Vale Hospital, Swainsthorpe, Norwich on 12 July 1956.