30 Sir William Russell Flint RA - Burlington Paintings
30 Sir William Russell Flint RA - Burlington Paintings
30 Sir William Russell Flint RA - Burlington Paintings
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36 James Brereton<br />
Born 1954<br />
James Brereton was born in 1954. He studied at the Joseph Wright Art School in Derby.<br />
By 1979 James was selling enough of his paintings to give up his job and become a<br />
professional artist. His interest in ships and the sea was growing and this took precedence<br />
over the wide variety of other subjects he had painted in the past. These marine works were<br />
strongly influenced by the great marine painters Thomas Somerscales and Montague<br />
Dawson. James sailed before the mast on the <strong>Sir</strong> Winston Churchill schooner belonging to<br />
the Sail Training Association in the 1990s. This was an exhilarating experience which provided<br />
him with much inspiration.<br />
Currently, nearly all James’ works are of marine subjects and they are often painted on a large<br />
scale in oil as he believes ‘the vast ocean is often best captured on a big canvas’. His largest<br />
commission to date has been a pair of canvases measuring 65 x 87 inches, each of Omani<br />
Dhows, which now hang in a fine palace. James has exhibited widely in England, including<br />
showing at the Royal Society of Marine Artists in London.<br />
Cleaving the Seas – The ‘Stag Hound’ and The ‘Charger’<br />
Signed<br />
Oil on Canvas<br />
40 x 50 ins / 101.6 x 127 cms
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