Henry James Gunn, Surrex Downs landscape, oil on card
Herbert James Gunn RA RP (1893-1964) A Walk on the Sussex Downs, oil on card, within an ornate wooden frame. Dimensions: 30 cm x 25 cm, with frame 44cm x 38.5 cm.
Signed H J Gunn lower left.
Although Gunn's reputation was assured as a portrait painter, depicting leading figures of the mid-twentieth century (Humphrey Brooke, Secretary of the Royal Academy was reported in the Daily Telegraph as saying that '... these pictures will now be seen to place Gunn above Orpen and on the level of Sargent'), his career began as a painter of landscapes: small, tonally delicate panels, Whistlerian in influence.
He initially painted in France, but during the 1920s and in later decades he took frequent holidays on the Sussex coast with his first wife Gwen, and their three daughters: Diana, Elizabeth, and Pauline. This work, painted en plein air (pin holes are evident in all four corners) depicts Pauline and one of their daughters walking on the Sussex Downs.
Herbert James Gunn RA RP (1893-1964) A Walk on the Sussex Downs, oil on card, within an ornate wooden frame. Dimensions: 30 cm x 25 cm, with frame 44cm x 38.5 cm.
Signed H J Gunn lower left.
Although Gunn's reputation was assured as a portrait painter, depicting leading figures of the mid-twentieth century (Humphrey Brooke, Secretary of the Royal Academy was reported in the Daily Telegraph as saying that '... these pictures will now be seen to place Gunn above Orpen and on the level of Sargent'), his career began as a painter of landscapes: small, tonally delicate panels, Whistlerian in influence.
He initially painted in France, but during the 1920s and in later decades he took frequent holidays on the Sussex coast with his first wife Gwen, and their three daughters: Diana, Elizabeth, and Pauline. This work, painted en plein air (pin holes are evident in all four corners) depicts Pauline and one of their daughters walking on the Sussex Downs.
Herbert James Gunn RA RP (1893-1964) A Walk on the Sussex Downs, oil on card, within an ornate wooden frame. Dimensions: 30 cm x 25 cm, with frame 44cm x 38.5 cm.
Signed H J Gunn lower left.
Although Gunn's reputation was assured as a portrait painter, depicting leading figures of the mid-twentieth century (Humphrey Brooke, Secretary of the Royal Academy was reported in the Daily Telegraph as saying that '... these pictures will now be seen to place Gunn above Orpen and on the level of Sargent'), his career began as a painter of landscapes: small, tonally delicate panels, Whistlerian in influence.
He initially painted in France, but during the 1920s and in later decades he took frequent holidays on the Sussex coast with his first wife Gwen, and their three daughters: Diana, Elizabeth, and Pauline. This work, painted en plein air (pin holes are evident in all four corners) depicts Pauline and one of their daughters walking on the Sussex Downs.