original watercolour of brasenose college chapel, oxford by john newberry

Mounted, Gilt-Framed & Glazed Original Watercolour 'Brasenose College Chapel, Oxford' by John Newberry, 1990

John Newberry was born in 1934 in Horsham, Sussex and educated in Bath. After National Service he studied Architecture at Cambridge and Fine Art at King’s College, Newcastle. He studied under Lawrence Gowing and Victor Pasmore and graduated in Fine Art in 1960. After that he lived in Oxford or the immediate area and, from 1963, taught at the Ruskin School of Drawing, retiring as Acting Head in 1989. During the period 1986-88 he taught landscape painting at a school in Umbria, Italy.He has exhibited at the RA, NEAC, RI, annually in Oxford and at RWS, of which he became a full member in 1995 and where in 1989 he won the Watercolour Foundation Prize. From 1990 he had several solo shows at Chris Beetles Ltd and at Duncan Campbell Contemporary Art from 1993. He paints landscapes and buildings, always in front of his subject and usually completes in one sitting. His work is small but he specialises in wide-angle views. Much of his work is painted abroad, especially in Egypt, North Africa, Italy and France. He now lives in Somerset.This fine example, of the interior of the Chapel of Brasenose College, Oxford, is nicely presented in a giltwood frame, which is in very good condition and is signed, indistinctly, in the bottom right-hand corner.Height of Frame c31.5cm x Width c38cm (c12.75" x c15")
Height of Picture within Mount 15cm x Width 22cm (c6" x c8.75")
Frame Thickness 1.5cm (c0.75")Picture, mount, frame & glass are all in very good, clean & sound condition.W-427060/5274C

Antiques.co.uk Ref: PU3AAYAKG

Maker/Artist:

John Newberry

Materials:

Watercolour

Width (cm):

c38

Height (cm):

c31.5

Depth (cm):

1.5

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