Harold Waite (British, 1870-1939), Farm Scene with Cattle and Windmill

Oil on canvas, signed at lower right, presented in a period frame. Stretcher size 20 x 30 in.; Frame dimensions 25 1/2 x 35 1/2 in. Private Collection, California and North Carolina Born in Croydon, painter Harold Waite was the son of a clergyman. He attended the Royal Academy Schools from 1890 to 1893, where, in his final year, he was awarded the Creswick Prize and the Turner Gold Medal. Waite was known primarily as a landscape painter, although for a time he ran the Sittingbourne Art School in the Kent town. He exhibited at the Greatorex Gallery, Royal Academy, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, New Gallery, Royal Society of British Artists, Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, Royal Institute of Oil Painters and Walker Art Gallery. Waite was elected an Associate of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1924. He lived in Kent, where he died in a sanatorium in the village of Lenham. Surface grime; no evidence of retouch visible under UV light.

Estimation:€179.25

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