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THBCaptain R. Borlase Smart (English, 1881-1947) Charcoal and Watercolor Painting Plus
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LiveDec 18, 2017 - Dec 19, 2017
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Lot of 4, including:
Captain R. Borlase Smart (1881-1947)
untitled
charcoal and watercolor
signed l.r., inscribed l.l., Dump at La Boiselle
framed, 11.5 x 8.25 in. (sight)
Shows Gordon Dump and German 2nd Line Trench.
Captain Robert Borlase Smart studied with F. J. Snell (1896), then at Plymouth College of Art (1897), Royal College of Art (1899) and under Julius Olsson in St Ives (1913). He returned home to St. Ives after serving in the army in the first world war, and his drawings of the Western Front were purchased by the Imperial War Museum. In 1935 he was commissioned to do a poster of St. Ives based on an aerial view for tourism purposes. He also designed another for the Southern Railway, and many others.
Unknown artist
print
inscribed l.r., Kemmel Hill and other indecipherable inscription at right
framed, 10 x 5.75 in. (sight)
Possible depiction of Kemmelburg in Belgium, the site of a famous WWI battle where many French died.
Unknown artist
oil painting
framed, 19.5 x 12 in. (sight)
Depicts wounded soldier being guided by medic, men carrying wounded or dead soldier in background.
James Prinsep Beadle (1863-1947)
Battle of Neuve Chapelle
print
signed l.r.
framed, 17.75 x 10.5 in. (sight)
Original version held at Maidstone Museum and Art Gallery in Kent. Depicts soldiers traveling down rubble-covered street lined with destroyed buildings, some searching the destruction, some lying dead among the debris.
James Prinsep Beadle was an English painter, interested in historical and military subject matter, who frequently exhibited at the Royal Academy and won a bronze medal at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1889.
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