Frederick Fred Appleyard
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Frederick Fred Appleyard R.W.A. 1874-1963
A Woman and Child in the Dappled Shade of a Churchyard
( possibly St Mary's, Church, Itchen Stoke, Hampshire )
Oil on Canvas 49.5 cms x 59.5 cms, 81 cms x 70 cms overall
£3400.
Provenance : By direct descent in the family of the artist. On Fred Appleyards death in 1963 this painting and others were bequeathed to his nephew Ivor Williams ( also a painter ) and subsequently to his daughter Philippa Chappell.
Fred Appleyard was born in Middlesborough in September 1874. He won a scholarship to the Scarborough School of Art, The Royal College of Art and The Royal Academy Schools, where he won The Turner Gold Medal.
He was a painter of subject pictures, landscapes, portraits and allegorical compositions of a decorative kind associated with English Impressionism. He exhibited widely during his lifetime, at the Royal Academy (forty-one works), the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, (thirteen works), and the Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts. He is represented at The Tate Gallery by an oil painting entitled "The Secret", a Chantry Bequest purchase from The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1915. He was at one time a regular exhibitor at The Royal Academy of both oil paintings and watercolours and at the Royal West of England Academy of which he was elected a member in 1926. Much of Fred Appleyard`s work had a decorative inclination and he executed several wall paintings, including "Spring Driving Away Winter" over the door of the Refreshment Room at the Royal Academy which was commissioned by the President and Council. Other examples of Fred Appleyard`s mural decoration are pastels in St. Mark`s Church. North Audley Street. London and Picking Church, Yorkshire and two large paintings in Nottingham General Hospital. Fred Appleyard is known chiefly for his scenes depicting families of obviously substantial means in outdoor settings, often incorporating ruins in his compositions. He used a dappling technique which was ideally suited to his frequent depiction of sunlight broken through trees. He was also fond of incorporating his own children into his work.
It was after the 1914-18 war that the big change in his life took place, he left London and settled in the Hampshire village of Itchen Stoke where he lived for nearly fifty years as a true artist despising money and fame, having to let his house to fishermen from the Stock Exchange to pay his rates and selling his Turner Gold Medal to get electricity put in his house.
This combination of an academic mind linked with that of the artist philosopher produced a rare set of beautiful paintings, English impressionism at its best.
Impressionism was a style of painting that originated in France about 1870. Paintings of casual subjects, executed outdoors, using divided brush strokes to capture the mood of a particular moment as defined by the transitory effects of light and colour.
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