Oliver Clare (British, 1853-1927)

Oliver Clare (British, 1853-1927)

Still Life with Flowers Against a Mossy Bank

Oil on Canvas

• Signed lower right.
• Painting - 20cm x 25.5cm
• Frame - 40.5cm x 46cm

Notes

A superb example of the work of still life painter Oliver Clare.  Signed lower right.

Condition

In very fine condition.  The canvas not lined, torn, patched or repaired.  There is some very slightly lifting to the paint lower left.  Clean, most attractive, well framed and ready to hang.

Artist Information

Oliver Clare was born in 1853, to the renowned still-life artist George Clare.  The Clare family members were Victorian artists who specialized in, and were well known for their highly finished and precisely detailed still life and flower paintings.  Oliver spent most of his artistic life in Birmingham. Though there are no records indicating where he received his training, one can be quite certain that most, if not all, of it was from his father.  Their stippling technique and choice of subject matter are almost identical.  While Oliver lived in Birmingham he was commissioned by a local health firm "Health Food Stores" to paint still-lives to be reproduced on postcards and posters.  Clare exhibited many paintings throughout his lifetime and is most often associated with the Artists of the West Midlands and the North.  He exhibited: eighteen works at the Royal Society of Artists, Birmingham; three at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and six at the Manchester City Art Gallery. Throughout the late 1870's and early 1880's he lived in London where he exhibited several works there at the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of British Artists, Suffolk Street.