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Eleanor Fell FRSA, South Downs towards Brighton – early 20th-century watercolour
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JT-640
Eleanor Fell FRSA, South Downs towards Brighton – early 20th-century watercolour
An original early 20th-century watercolour painting, Eleanor W. Fell FRSA, South Downs towards Brighton.
This attractive watercolour by Eleanor W. Fell (active 1900s–30s) captures the expansive landscape of the Sussex chalk downland looking towards Brighton on the south coast. Sky fills the majority of the picture plane, inspiring a sense of vast openness. The South Downs landscape has been the subject matter of such celebrated writers and artists as Rudyard Kipling and Eric Ravilious.
On laid paper.
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Details
Signed: Signed lower right.
Inscribed: Inscribed verso.
Height: 25.1cm (9.9″)
Width: 33.1cm (13″)
Condition: Age toning across the sheet, as shown. There is a small repaired whole at the left edge. The picture may have other minor imperfections such as slight marks, foxing or creasing, commensurate with age. Please see photos for detail. There are historic adhesive marks and/or paper remnants to the verso, from previous mounting.
Presented: Unframed.
Eleanor Fell (1866–1946) (née Michell) was born in Lytham, Lancashire, the daughter of a surgeon. She studied at Westminster School of Art and in Paris. She won two figure prizes at Westminster and the Gilbert Garrat prizes for animal and landscape painting. Fell was based in Hove, Brighton, Shoreham, Essex, Worthing, West Sussex and London. She produced paintings, engravings and aquatints, and exhibited at the Royal Academy (1902–32), the Royal Glasgow Institute (1921–3), the New English Art Club (from 1901), the Society of Women Artists (1901) and the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, of which she was elected an Associate.
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