Charles Wyatt Warren (Welsh, 1908-1993)
Charles Wyatt Warren (Welsh, 1908-1993)
Mount Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle, North Wales
Oil on Board
- Signed lower left.
- Provenance; with Yew Tree Cottage Gallery, Derbyshire. With gallery label verso and with the original invoice accompanying the painting.
- With original label verso with the artist's name and address.
- There are 8 paintings by this artist in the British National Art Collection.
- Painting - 30.5cm x 76cm
- Frame - 46cm x 91cm
Lot Notes
A very fine oil painting on board depicting Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle, North Wales by important 20th century Welsh landscape painter Charles Wyatt Warren. The painting has a good provenance having been purchased by the previous private collector from Yew Tree Cottage Gallery in 1978, the painting is accompanied by the gallery invoice. Signed lower left. With original labels verso.
Condition
In very fine condition. Clean, most attractive, well framed and ready to hang. Presented in its original frame.
Artist Information
Charles Wyatt Warren was a landscape painter who was born in Caernarvon in 1908. Wales. He attended Grammar School there, completed external studies through London University but in art was self-taught. He was a member of Arts Society of Paddington, Caernarvon Art Group, and a founder member and former secretary of NWG. Showed RCamA, Denbighshire Art Society, Royal National Eisteddfod, ROI, extensively in Wales and abroad. Had a solo show at London Welsh Association, 1960, some 50 solos following in Britain and North America. Did commissioned work for North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Brussels and University College of North Wales, Bangor. Gwynedd County Council and CASW hold examples. His style is comparable to the leading artist of the Welsh School, Sir Kyffin Williams.