Important watercolor painting representing a beautiful landscape with sailboats in front of a rocky coastline
Original signed work by the great English artist George Charles Haité
Dimensions without frame
Height 21.5 cm
Width cm 58
George Charles Haité (June 8, 1855 - March 31, 1924) was a great English painter but also a designer, illustrator and writer.
His most famous work is the iconic cover of the Strand Magazine, launched in 1891, which helped popularize Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories.
Haité was also a founding member and first president of the London Sketch Club.
He moved to London in the early 1870s where he began to make a name for himself as an illustrator and all-round artist, specializing in watercolors.
In 1883 he exhibited the first of many paintings at the Royal Academy and specialized in landscapes, many of them executed during his travels to Venice, Morocco, and northern Europe.
In 1897 his painting located in Dortmund won the "Gold Landscape" award at that year's exhibition at the Crystal Palace.
He used to sign his works "Geo C. Haité" or "G.C. Haité."
According to his friend, the great war correspondent Frederic Villiers, "I have never met a man who was so quick with brush and colors in transferring an impression to his canvas.
His memory is so marvelous that one can see him produce, a sketch of a Dutch market with its gray atmosphere, of a street in Bruges with the architectural beauty of its cathedral and houses, or of a suburb of Tangier ( like our painting NDR )with its mosques and minarets shining in the heat against a deep purple sky, with the same precision of tone and drawing as if he had been sitting in front of his subject."
Thus Villiers continues, Haité was "one of the most artistically engaged men, as he is president or partner of some eight or nine artistic societies." "In fact, his talents earned him membership in the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the Society of Miniature Painters, the Royal British Colonial Society of Artists, the National Association of House Painters and Decorators of England and Wales, and, as president, the Institute of Decorative Designers.
George Charles Haité also wrote and lectured on art and design and in 1897 was elected president of the Nicolson Institute art gallery in Staffordshire.
His inexhaustible social activities also extended beyond the visual arts, being also involved in the famous Seven of Odd Volumes literary club, in one of the earliest members of the Japan Society in London and, since 1888, a Fellow of the Linnean Society.
The painting is accompanied by a beautiful coeval natural wood frame and protected by glass.
This item is from a private collection and is therefore previously unseen on the market
Certificate of authenticity issued by Sabrina Egidi Expert of the Court and C.C.I.A.A. of Rome.
Under current legislation, this work may require an export license if it is sold outside of Italy
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