OIL PAINTING BRIGHTON BEACH From "1865" By ARTIST "JAMES CLARKE HOOK "

PAINTING REF 110427
 
Fine Original Antique 19th Century British OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING
Ship Scene GOLD GILT FRAME
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NEW COLLECTION Of RARE PIECES OF ENGLISH HISTORY 
 
By James Clarke Hook Similar $60,000 Premier Collection 
 
Excellent Condition canvas. Cleaned Ready to hang. Relined
" frame is in Average condition ”
 
Description
 
( 19th century )
Quality piece ,that should be in a Brighton Museum
 
Piece also comes with a lovely hand written letter by the artist 
himself , saying about a painting to a fellow famous artist.
 
Title: The Beach and pier of Brighton coast
painted by Brighton beach , this is a nice piece of art with a nice painting of the
old Brighton pier in the back ground. 
Dated 1865
 
Artist: James Clarke Hook
 
Signature: Yes bottom Left

Provenance: john Castagno art directory 

Medium : Oil painting on canvas
 
 
Condition: canvas very good
 
Country: British school 
 
Frame size : 36 in x 28 in 
( 91 cm x 71 cm)
 
 
Canvas size : 24" x 16" 
 
 
With an estimate of £10000 - £12000
Description: Hook was born in London, the son of James Hook, a draper and one time Judge of the Mixed Commission Court in Sierra Leone. His mother was the second daughter of Bible scholar Dr Adam Clarke - hence the painter's second name. Young Hook's first taste of the sea was on board the Berwick smacks which took him on his way to Wooller. He drew with rare facility, and determined to become an artist, practiced his work, on his own initiative, for more than a year in the sculpture galleries of the British Museum. Still in his youth, he also had some advice by John Jackson and John Constable.
In 1836, Hook was admitted as a student to the Royal Academy, London, where he worked for three years. His first picture, called The Hard Task, was exhibited in 1839, and represented a girl helping her sister with a lesson. In 1842, Hook's second exhibited work was a portrait of Master J. Finch Smith. In 1844 he was represented at the exhibition at Westminster Hall with a design called "Satan in Paradise" to compete for the fresco decorations of the new Palace of Westminster but was not selected or won a prize.[1] In 1844 the Academy showed his
"Pamphilids relating his Story" (inspired by the Decameron), which consisted of a meadow scene in bright light, with sumptuous women, richly clad, reclining on the grass.