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Antique Ship Portrait by Harold Percival ARE - The Electra

Harold Percival ARE
The Electra
Signed watercolour with body colour, 368 x 585mm, 14.5 x 23” SOLD

Bibliography
Harold Stanley Percival ARE 1868 -1914 A marine painter elected to the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in 1905. His addresses are listed as Seaford 1905, and Steyning in 1908. His subject matter also included landscapes and town scenes. Born at Bickley in Kent on the 6th Sept.1868, he followed a career as an engineer until 1897 and was involved in the construction of the Manchester Ship Canal. He worked as an artist in Sussex and East Anglia. He died on the 6th Oct. 1914 and a memorial exhibition was held at The Brighton Art Gallery the following year. Exhibited 32 @ RE, 2 @ RSA, 3 @ LS, 5 @ L, 2 @ GI.

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