Ralph Ellis (1885-1963) - Mid 20th Century Oil, Chalk Pits at Amberley

Description

A mid 20th century impressionistic landscape of the Chalk Pits at Amberley. Signed to the lower left corner.


On canvas board.

Condition

There are a few surface marks around the edge of the painting, possibly caused by a previous frame. Otherwise in good condition for its age.

Biography

On leaving school, Ralph went away to London as an apprentice to a furniture draughtsman and designer, but never settled to the work. Instead, he turned to painting -by day making his living by painting houses and after work attending evening classes in drawing and painting.

In 1913, three years after his marriage to Gertrude Seymour, he opened a little shop in her home town of Bognor as an 'oil and colour man', selling home decorating materials and artists' supplies as well as his own paintings.

During the First World War, Ralph served with the Royal Sussex Regiment and the Queen's Regiment. Injured by shrapnel in July 1917, Ralph was discharged and returned to England. He then enrolled at the Slade School of Fine Art in London where he studied until 1919.

Relocating to Arundel in 1920, Ralph soon established his reputation as a portrait and landscape painter and, in a highly specialised field of art, as a designer and painter of inn signs.

Ralph retired from his inn sign painting business in 1951 and then dedicated the rest of his life to landscape painting.

Details

  • Size: 21.2 x 30.6cm (8.3" x 12")
    Sheet: 25.4 x 35cm (10" x 13.8")
  • Product Code: rc655
  • Includes a Certificate of Authenticity

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