ANTIQUE WATERCOLOUR PAINTING DOUGLAS FOX PITT 1901 c.

SIGNED ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR ON LIGHT CARD READY TO FRAME. c1900'S

OF; A marble arch.

by DOUGLAS FOX PITT.

Douglas FOX PITT 1864–1922

Painter mainly in watercolour of landscapes and figure subjects. Born 17 December 1864 in London, fifth son of General Fox Pitt-Rivers; studied at the Bartlett School of Architecture 1881–2 and 1889–90 and for a short time at the Slade School. Farmed in Canada 1885–6. Visited Morocco 1905–6 and illustrated The Barbarians of Morocco by Count Sternberg 1908. Exhibited at the R.B.A. 1907–13. Visited Cracow 1913 and Ceylon. Foundation member and regular exhibitor at the London Group 1914–21; was a friend of Sickert and painted with him in Dieppe between 1907 and 1921. Lived at Brighton 1911–18, then settled at Thorpe near Chertsey, Surrey, where he died 19 September 1922. Memorial exhibitions at the Leicester Galleries and Brighton 1923.

Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I

AN ORIGINAL PERIOD PAINTING, WELL PAINTED

un- framed.

SIZE 16 BY 12.5 INS,/41CM BY 32CM

sound CONDITION.

all my pictures are old and have been hung and stored and loved, so they are not perfect and signs of age are apparent as in the photographes.