Wilfrid de Glehn RA NEAC (1870-1951)
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Wilfrid de Glehn RA NEAC (1870-1951) Les Pins de la Vallee du Var Oil on canvas Signed 65 x 81 cm
View of Carros from Gattiere. 'This picture was painted in October 1924 near Gattieres where I was staying. The little walled medieval town in the distance is called Carros and is the type of dozens of small fortified towns in Provence and especially in the Alpes Maritimes. In the hazy distance you see the beginning of the Alps.' W. G. Glehn. ARA. NEAC. Wilfred de Glehn was born in London and attended Brighton College. When he was twenty he travelled to Paris to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Gustave Moreau. He was based in Paris for six years, during which time he absorbed the lessons of the Impressionists, before travelling to America to assist John Singer Sargent with the murals he had been commissioned to paint for the Boston Public Library, leading to a life-long friendship. Whilst working in America, he met his wife, Jane Emmet, whom he married in 1904, and who became a frequent model for his outdoor studies, invariably dressed in white. He and his wife settled in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, as part of an artistic enclave where his many friends included Henry Tonks, Philip Wilson Steer, Henry James, and of course John Singer Sargent. Indeed, the influence of Tonks and Steer encouraged a more romantic and poetic feel to his landscapes. Although widely known as a portraitist, his first love was landscape painting and his constant search for motifs led him and his wife to make annual trips to Europe - Venice, Lake Garda and particularly the South of France. Here, introduced to the diverse landscapes of the Montaignes des Maures and the Var valley by his French cousins, he painted extensively, from the little port of St. Tropez, to the hill villages of St Paul de Vence and Biot, and inland at Gattieres. In London he was a member of the New English Art Club from 1900, and exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy from 1896, being made RA in 1932, and continued to exhibit there until his death in 1950. His work is held in the National Collections of: Birmingham City Art Gallery; Bristol City Art Gallery; Manchester City Art Gallery; Walker Art Gallery; Cambridge University; Imperial War Museum; National Portrait Gallery; Royal Academy; Tate Gallery. And Internationally: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Australia and The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC, USA. Enquire about this artwork |
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