Still Life Bouquet

Description

A bright foliate still life completed by a well recorded artist. Anthony Baynes (1921-2003), mural painter and illustrator, was born in New Zealand but studied at the Slade School of Art, partly during it‘s wartime relocation to Oxford, where his fellow students included Kyffin Williams and Bernard Dunstan. He executed mural decorations for Portsmouth town hall, the naval barracks in Portsmouth and Plymouth, and elsewhere. Working principally in oil and gouache he produced landscapes, portraits and decorated furniture, as well as designs for book-jackets for the publishers John Murray, Jonathan Cape and Eyre & Spottiswoode. His work combines Grecian fantasy (in the manner of Rex Whistler) with a neo-romantic style similar to the work of John Minton and John Caxton.
Oil on canvas. Provenance: Artist’s studio sale via Neil Wilson Fine Art.