A Devon Trout Stream
A Devon Trout Stream
EDWARD STEEL HARPER, RBSA (1878-1951)
A Devon Trout Stream
Signed with monogram; bears title on a label on the stretcher
Oil on canvas
46 by 91.5 cm., 18 by 36 cm. (frame size 62 by 108 cm., 24 by 42 in.)
Edward Steel Harper was born in Handsworth, Birmingham, the son of the artist Edward Samuel Harper. He was educated at King Edward VI High School and Birmingham School of Art under E R Taylor. His landscapes in oil are painted in the ”˜wet white’ technique, a method established by the Pre-Raphaelites, which gives the colours a luminous clarity. He was elected a member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists in 1915. He taught art at Wolverhampton Grammar School, retiring in 1942. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Walker Art Gallery and in Birmingham. Works by him are in many public collections including those in Birmingham, Dudley and Leamington Spa.
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 A Devon Trout Stream Signed with monogram; bears title on a label on the stretcher Oil on canvas 46 by 91.5 cm., 18 by 36 cm. (frame size 62 by 108 cm., 24 by 42 in.) Edward Steel Harper was born in Handsworth, Birmingham, the son of the artist Edward Samuel Harper. He was educated at King Edward VI High School and Birmingham School of Art under E R Taylor. His landscapes in oil are painted in the ”˜wet white’ technique, a method established by the Pre-Raphaelites, which gives the colours a luminous clarity. He was elected a member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists in 1915. He taught art at Wolverhampton Grammar School, retiring in 1942. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Walker Art Gallery and in Birmingham. Works by him are in many public collections including those in Birmingham, Dudley and Leamington Spa.){kind=link}