€300 - €600
Star Lot: 'Frederick James Aldridge' (1850–1933) An original 'Frederick James Aldridge' (1850–1933) watercolour on paper painting titled 'Brighton Luggers entering Shoreham Harbour'. Features a marine / nautical scene with sailing boats in a stormy sea with a lighthouse in distance. Rendered in gestural strokes portraying movement in the scene. Signed 'F.J Aldridge' bottom right. Titled and inscribed 'F.J Aldridge' to the matting. Housed in an elaborate gilt frame behind glass. Artist's sticker to verso.
Frederick James Aldridge is a well renowned artist with works fetching into the high hundreds, low thousands.
MM: 62 x 50 cm including frame.
Frederick James Aldridge (1850–1933) was a British painter in oils and watercolourist, known for painting marine scenes. Aldridge is a well regarded artist, who from 1884 exhibted first at the Watercolour Society, then at the Royal Hibernian Academy at Liverpool and finally at the Royal Academy, London. He also exhibited at the Brighton Exhibition of 1909 and at the Dorchester in 1910. Failing eyesight forced him to stop painting in 1927. He died in 1933.
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