Dartmoor river scene. “A Winters day on the Cad” Signed John Baragwanath King (b1864)

Description

John Baragwanath King captures the beauty of a moorland trout stream on the edge of Dartmoor with this watercolour. Titled “A Winters day on the Cad” The river Cad famed for trout fishing, is a fork of the river Plym and runs between Shaugh Bridge to just below Cadover Bridge.
This is a fairly large work, and is being sold out of the frame and glass. The frame needs TLC to bring it back to an acceptable condition.
Picture size 70cm x 52cm 27 1/2" x 20 1/2".
Original frame approximately 95cm x 78cm 37 1/2" x 30".
Collection from Pennymoor Tiverton
Offers considered.
John Baragwanath King was a British landscape painter and watercolour artist born in 1864. his place of birth was at Phillack, near Hayle in Cornwall. After giving up his training to become an engineer, Baragwanath King became an artist. He lived with his wife and daughter Gladys, in St. Austell. During this time, John had a studio in Plymouth, Devon, where he continuously worked on his craft and painted seascapes using watercolours and oils.
John Baragwanath King didn’t begin to exhibit his paintings until 1903, when he was 39 years old, he continued exhibiting until 1914. Baragwanath King’s work was exhibited in different countries in Europe, including Paris, Berlin, and Florence. Some of his works were also exhibited at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour and the Baillie Gallery in west London. He was known for his oil and watercolour paintings of coastal scenes, seascapes, and landscapes. His creative abilities are diverse, as is his use of colour, which spans from blue and pink seascapes to bright grey, purple and green landscapes. This experimentation with colour is motivated by Cezanne’s use of colour as a substitute for dark and light or to indicate depth in perspective. Most of the records about John Baragwanath King show that he was influenced by French artist Paul Cezanne, a painter whose ideas and paintings influenced many other contemporary artists during the 19th century Impressionism and Cubism movements.
Baragwanath King also gained popularity when Queen Alexandra bought one of his paintings. This led King Edward VII to buy more of Baragwanath King’s paintings. Two of his works are part of the Royal collection today.

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