- Title:
- Sketch from Nature
- Object name(s):
- watercolour
- Brief description:
- Watercolour sketch, possibly of Christchurch Harrogate. Large tree in the foreground with church and buildings in the distance.
- Collection:
- Mercer Art Gallery
- Credit line:
- This collection is part of North Yorkshire Council Museums.
- Current reproduction location:
- Modes\Art\BWE\2396.jpg
- Current reproduction location:
- Modes\Art\BWE\2396a.jpg
- Dimension:
- height
- Dimension value:
- 55cm
- Dimension:
- width
- Dimension value:
- 37.8cm
- Inscription content:
- : : : signed bottom right : Sketch from Nature Bernard Evans
- Material:
- watercolour on paper
- Number of objects:
- 1
- Object name:
- watercolour
- Object number:
- HARAG : 2396
- Object production note:
- Painter of landscape in watercolour and occasionally oils. Born in Birmingham on 26 December 1843, the son of the master church furniture maker and engraver Walter Swift Evans, he studied under Samuel Lines from 1851 and at the Birmingham School of Art in 1858. Initially working under William Wallis, the Scottish Landscape and animal colourist, he went on to work principally as a landscape painter, specialising in atmospheric watercolours. Evans married Mary Ann Eliza Hollyer in 1870, living first in London and moving to Harrogate where they had settled by 1887. During the late 1880s Evans was engaged mostly with drawing the Yorkshire abbeys. He travelled to the South of France on a number of occasions where he painted views of Cannes. In the late 1890s he suffered from a severe eye infection but recovered enough to paint some of his finest works for the Universal Exhibition of 1900, held in Paris. Evans exhibited widely and regularly throughout the UK; his work was shown often at the RA, and features in the permanent collections at South Kensington, Melbourne Art Gallery and Sydney Art Gallery, the V&A, Laing, Blackburn Art Gallery, and Cartwright Hall, Bradford. An extensive collection of his works, diaries, accounts and newspaper reviews are held in the collections of Harrogate Museums and Arts, together with a number of his sketch books and his palette. Evans was a founder member of the City of London Society of Artists and a member of the Savage club he was elected to the RBA (1880) and to the RI (1887). Until about 1911, Evans and his wife lived at 20 Park Parade in Harrogate, where a plaque was put up and unveiled on 22 September 2009. Evan's wife, Mary, wrote a journal, several volumes of which are also in the collection in Harrogate. She documented Evans' paintings and exhibitions, collecting comments and reviews, and describing their travels; she included her own poems, inscriptions from gravestones, noting historic events. She also wrote commentary on Harrogate, its people, tourists and places. Bernard Evans died on 26 February 1922, and is buried at Harlow Carr Cemetry, Harrogate, together with his wife, who passed away in 1902.
- Object production person:
- Evans, Bernard Walter
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/8c2724a0-1402-3435-bf7d-e1907ade7da5
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/8c2724a0-1402-3435-bf7d-e1907ade7da5, Mercer Art Gallery, CC BY
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