Friday, February 21, 2020

Interiors - Painted Views - Unpopulated (I)

Nestor Cambier
Interior at Culham Court
ca. 1915
oil on canvas
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham

Marie Louise Pierrepont
Red Drawing Room, Cliffe Castle
ca. 1918
oil on canvas
Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley, Yorkshire
 
Marie Louise Pierrepont
Large Drawing Room with Malachite Fireplace, Cliffe Castle
ca. 1918
oil on canvas
Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley, Yorkshire

Marie Louise Pierrepont
The Landing, Cliffe Castle
ca. 1918
oil on canvas
Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley, Yorkshire

Clare Atwood
Dining Room at Smallhythe Place
ca. 1920
oil on canvas
National Trust, Smallhythe Place, Kent
 
The white bark writhed and sputtered like a fish
Upon the coals, exuding odorous smoke.
She knelt and blew, in a surging desolate wish
For comfort; and the sleeping ashes woke
And scattered to the hearth, but no thin fire
Broke suddenly, the wood was wet with rain.
Then, softly stepping forth from her desire,
(Being mindful of like passion hurled in vain
Upon a similar task, in other days)
She thrust her breath against the stubborn coal,
Bringing to bear upon its hilt the whole
Of her still body . . . there sprang a little blaze . . .
A pack of hounds, the flame swept up the flue! –
And the blue night stood flattened against the windows, staring through.

 – Edna St. Vincent Millay (1923)

Duncan Grant
Interior
1929
oil on canvas
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Roy de Maistre
Interior
1930
oil on canvas
Manchester Art Gallery

William Bruce Ellis Ranken
Osterley Park, London - Interior
1931
oil on canvas
Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull

Frank Moss Bennett
Great Hall, Montacute House
ca. 1930-40
oil on canvas
National Trust, Montacute House, Somerset

Charles Maresco Pearce
Corner of Café Verrey (Regent Street, London)
1920
oil on panel
Manchester Art Gallery

Francis Cadell
Interior - Regent Terrace, Edinburgh
ca. 1932-33
oil on canvas
McManus Gallery, Dundee, Scotland

Samuel Peploe
Interior
before 1935
oil on canvas
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland

Frank Stanton
Front Room, Islington High Street
1968
oil on canvas
Geffrye Museum, London

Peter Archer
My Last Interior
1974
oil on canvas
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Alec Cobbe
Salon at the Hôtel du Marc, Reims
2008
acrylic on board
National Trust, Hatchlands, Surrey