Artist: GEORGE HAMMOND STEEL

Title: 'MOUSEHOLE HARBOUR, CORNWALL', original watercolour - framed

Description: George Hammond Steel (1900-1960) was a painter of landscapes and coastal scenes in oil and watercolour.  He was born in Sheffield and studied at Sheffield School of Art, and later in Birmingham and London. Hammond Steel exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, Royal Institute of Watercolour Painters, Royal Society of British Artists, Royal West of England Academy, Glasgow Institute, Paris Salon, etc.  He is represented in a number of public collections.

Prior to World War II, Steel's work was highly accomplished yet consisted of rather conventional landscapes.  Subsequently, in the late 1940s and 1950s, he produced a body of work which is very different in execution and technique, and which is now prized by collectors.  He is most noted for his atmospheric paintings of coastal scenes, especially of Cornwall and East Anglia, his Essex cottage subjects, and Derbyshire landscapes.  The oils often have extensive sgraffito (scratching to the surface of the paint by the artist) and he employed a variety of glazes to good effect.

The present work is a watercolour, not signed but inscribed 'Mousehole' verso.  It is most likely to date to the period 1955-60, and is guaranteed to be the work of George Hammond Steel.  It is one of three paintings we had by this artist recently - the other two (one also a Cornish harbour subject) were both signed.  We think this work was the one sold by Phillips Auctioneers in London on 20th June 2000, lot 220.  The watercolour has a visible image size of 8.7 x 10.7 inches, and in its recent handmade frame it measures 15.2 x 17.2 inches.  The work is in good fresh condition but on very close inspection it does have some minor sporadic foxing.  The frame is excellent...

Price: £sold

Size: 8.7 x 10.7 inches, visible image size  

Shipping: £12 to mainland UK. Please enquire for other destinations.

Ref #: 0582