John Littlejohns - House in the Countryside

John Littlejohns – House in the Countryside

R5,000.00

(1847 – 1955)
British

Item name: House in the Countryside
Medium: Oils on board
Art size: 36cm x 52cm
Framed size:
48cm x 63cm (Old period frame from the artist)

Categories: John Littlejohns, Oils

In stock

Description

About the Artist:

Painter, illustrator, writer, and teacher, born at Orchard Hill, near Bideford, Devon, and married to the artist Idalia Blanche Littlejohns. For some time, they occupied 2 Orchard Studios in Brook Green. Littlejohns was a member of the Arts Club and also of RBA, RWA, and RI, with which he exhibited until 1954. He was a prolific artist, also exhibiting with the Fine Art Society RCamA, Walker’s Galleries, and elsewhere. His own books included Art in Schools and Sketching from Nature in Line and Tone, and with Leonard Richmond, he wrote The Technique of Watercolour and The Art of Painting in Pastel.