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| Keywords: Scottish painter - Scottish lake landscape in front of mountains.jpg century 19 Second half other date century 19 oil canvas cm 51 76 accession number object history credit line F E Jamieson ~ lower right signature This scene was painted several times from various viewpoints by both Frank E Jamieson b1834 - d1899 and Francis E Jamieson b1895 - d1950 Both artists painted in similar styles and both signed their paintings F E Jamieson in similar script This particular painting is by Frank E Jamieson The scene resembles the hills at the north-east tip of Loch Awe viewed from Kilchurn Castle island although other very similar scenes painted by the Jamiesons bear the inscriptions 'Loch Fyne' and 'Lochearnhead' In the 20th century during the inter-war years 1919-1939 Francis E Jamieson became one of the most prolific and fashionable artists of his time He entered into exclusive contracts with various furniture stores but sold additional paintings ˜on the side ™ by using a range of pseudonyms at least eleven are known including J McGregor Graham Williams Henry Stewart HB Davis W Richards Aubrey Ramus Stanley Penn A de Perrin and Phil-Hipps with each imaginary artist having his own style and geographical coverage e g the signature Aubrey Ramus appears on Highland scenes as well as on paintings in a very different style of thatched cottages hunting and farming scenes of rural England; Graham Williams' appears on Highland scenes as well as a range of seascapes etc Perhaps because of his extraordinary almost industrial level of output Francis Jamieson ™s paintings do sometimes appear rushed with a ˜chocolate box ™ superficiality and almost formulaic similarity In recent years both Frank and Francis Jamieson have sunk into obscurity Although their paintings are better appreciated in the USA than in the UK they can still be acquired at auction for remarkably modest sums http //www kunstauktionen-duesseldorf de/en/katalogdetails/27/237/2 HARGESHEIMER Gà NTHER KUNSTAUKTIONEN Dà SSELDORF PD-old-100 19th-century landscape paintings Landscape paintings of the United Kingdom 19th-century mountain paintings Paintings of lakes Images from Hargesheimer Günther Kunstauktionen Paintings in Scotland 1851-1900 paintings Paintings with signatures lower right 19th-century paintings location missing Scottish landscape painting | ||||
