OIL PAINTING OLD MASTER ARTHUR MEADOWS (1843 - 1907) FINE 19th CENTURY BRITISH

PAINTING REF 110168
 
Original Antique Large late 19th/early 20th Century British OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING Romantic Sea Scene GOLD GILT FRAME
NEW COLLECTION Of RARE PIECES OF ENGLISH HISTORY 
Arthur Joseph Meadows (1843- 1907) Premier Collection 
 
“Good Condition canvas. Cleaned Ready to hang. " Relined & one or two
marks overtime " frame is in good /average condition for age "See pictures”
 
( Late 19th Early 20th century ) 
 
Title: Romantic sea view
( difficult the read label )
 
Artist: Arthur Joseph Meadows
 
Signed: yes
 
Signature : lower left
 
Provenance: john Castagno art 
signature directory.

Medium : Oil painting on canvas
 
 
Condition: Good 
 
Country: British school 
 
Frame size : 36.5 in x 26.5in 
( 93 cm x 67 cm)
 
Canvas size : 32" x 18 " 
 
Arthur Joseph Meadows was born in Mile End in the East End of London in 1843. The youngest child, he lived with his parents until his father's death in 1863. He then continued to live in the neighbouring streets off Bow Road in close proximity to his mother and his sister Ann and her family, until 1868.
 
One interesting vignette of the young Arthur that has survived was as a member of a Mile End amateur dramatic society, 'The Pickwick Histrionic Club', which appeared at the Beaumont Institution in Beaumont Square (where the Meadows family lived at the time). Arthur appeared in a drama called, 'All that glitters is not gold', and the critic of 'The Players' Magazine noted in his review of the evening that, "Mr A.J.Meadows as Lady Leatherbridge was also exceedingly good", perhaps showing some of his father's and grandfather's dramatic talent.