Frederick George Swaish - The Mountain Climber
Frederick George Swaish - The Mountain Climber
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FREDERICK GEORGE SWAISH
(1879-1931)
The Mountain Climber
Signed l.r.: SWAISH
Oil on board
Framed
26 by 36 cm., 10 ¼ by 14 ¼ in.
(frame size 39 by 49 cm., 15 ½ by 19 ¼ in.)
Frederick George Swaish was born in Bristol, the son of Sir John Swaish, a pawnbroker who twice served as Lord Mayor of Bristol. Swaish’s dashing 1915 portrait of his father, wearing his mayoral robes, is in the collection of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery.
He studied in Bristol and London where in 1903 he was sharing a fashionable Glebe Place, Chelsea studio with Ernest Howard Shepherd. He worked as a painter of portraits, figurative and landscape subjects. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal West of England Academy and elsewhere. Works by him are held in the collections of the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Bristol Museum and Art Gallery; the Royal West of England Academy.
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The Mountain ClimberSigned l.r.: SWAISHOil on boardFramed26 by 36 cm., 10 ¼ by 14 ¼ in.(frame size 39 by 49 cm., 15 ½ by 19 ¼ in.)Frederick George Swaish was born in Bristol, the son of Sir John Swaish, a pawnbroker who twice served as Lord Mayor of Bristol. Swaish’s dashing 1915 portrait of his father, wearing his mayoral robes, is in the collection of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery.He studied in Bristol and London where in 1903 he was sharing a fashionable Glebe Place, Chelsea studio with Ernest Howard Shepherd. He worked as a painter of portraits, figurative and landscape subjects. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal West of England Academy and elsewhere. Works by him are held in the collections of the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Bristol Museum and Art Gallery; the Royal West of England Academy.){kind=link}