MAX LUDBY R.I.,R.B.A. (1858 – 1943)
"The River
Crossing"
Watercolour. Signed
and dated 1902
9 7/8" x 13
3/8" (framed)
IMAGE
Max Ludby was a landscape and genre
painter in watercolour. He was also an
engraver. Born in London on 4th November 1858, he studied art
in Antwerp from
1882 to 1884 and exhibited at the leading London Galleries from 1879 including
the Royal Academy, the Suffolk Street Galleries,
the New Watercolour Society and the Grosvenor Gallery. He was elected Member of the Royal Institute
in 1891. In 1893 he showed a series of 82 watercolours at Dowdeswells
From Oxford to Greenwich and in 1897
a series of 60 watercolours at Dickinson and Foster's Some Sketches of Venice. He
lived at Cookham and
for some years in Surrey and died on 18th March 1943.
Some of his noted paintings were A
Berkshire Common (Royal
Academy 1888), One of the Flock (Royal Institute 1891)
and An Old Shepherd (Royal Institute
1893).
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