Artist: Harold Wood

Title: Shylock - signed painting in acrylic, framed    

Description: Harold Wood (born 1918, Lancashire) is a painter of portraits, figure subjects and landscapes, in oil and watercolour. From 1935 he trained as a decorative artist with the Leyland Paint Company and studied drawing and painting part time at the Harris School of Art, Preston.  After war service he worked as an illustrator and model maker in London and also studied etching at the Central School of Arts and Crafts. Wood began painting full time in the early 1950s, and he has had a number of one-man shows including the Zwemmer Gallery 1954, Beaux Arts Gallery 1956, Grosvenor Gallery 1964, Bramante Gallery Victoria 1968 & 1970, Kamp Gallery, Chicago, USA 1998, and Vanguard Gallery, Cork 2003. Since undertaking important commissions for clients in Saudi Arabia and Oman, Harold Wood was referred to as 'The Painter of the Arab World'. He moved to Ireland in 1980 and has lived at Arlinstown in County Cork.

The present work is an original painting in acrylic, signed and dated 1972 and titled 'Shylock' lower left. It measures about 19.8 x 12.6 inches image size and about 27 x 19.5 inches in what we think is its original 1970s frame. The painting is in good original condition and the frame is in good order too.

This work is very well observed and depicts the best known known character from William Shakespeare's play 'The Merchant of Venice'. It is possible that Harold Wood painted this work on commission for someone in the acting profession as he had many clients from the world of film, television and the stage including the late Sir John Mills...

Price: £120

Size: 19.8 x 12.6 inches size

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

Ref #: 0905