Posted 10 years ago
Bentley
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Old oil on canvas over 70 years old ,artist L Wilson is 12. By 20 inches in original frame . Any info on the artist would help . It has been in my Mothers home for 60 years and before that was in an old Toronto home .
I am not an art guy, however, I believe this is your guy.
Lawrence William Wilson was a member of the Ellerman Wilson shipping family. Living in Dover as a child he witnessed two ships fighting in the Channel in 1864 during the American War of Secession. He studied under N.E. Green and then later emigrated to New Zealand, settling in Auckland. He is subsequently recorded as being an artist in Oamaru, purchasing a farm in Canterbury and by 1884, being a Dunedin artist. He took pupils (including O'Keefe), became a painting companion of George O'Brien and shared a studio with Nerli. Painting in both oils and watercolours, L.W. Wilson exhibited widely in New Zealand, including the CSA 1882 and OAS 1884-1904, as well as the St Louis Exposition 1904 as a New Zealand painter. In 1904, L.W. Wilson left New Zealand for Melbourne, where he spent five months on a commissioned painting of the city, before returning to England. L.W. Wilson is represented in major N.Z. galleries, Turnbull, Canterbury Museum, Hocken.
Sorry pictures upside down I am new at this and tried to change them but edit did not seem to work .I really appreciate the info from pack-rat place . Thank you .