ERNEST AMOR
(1889 1967)
Coronation Day,
London
Watercolour. 21.3cm x 25.5cm. Signed
Mounted IMAGE
Huts and Boats,
Whitstable
Watercolour. 25.3cm x 30.4cm . Signed
Mounted IMAGE
Fishing Boats in a
Harbour, Whitstable
Watercolour. 18cm x 22.7cm. Signed
Framed & Mounted. Overall framed size 14 Ύ x 16
Ό (37.5cm x 41.2cm) IMAGE
Crown & Anchor,
Shoreham
Watercolour. 33.7cm x 27.3cm. Signed
Framed & Mounted. Overall framed size 20 5/8 x 17
Ύ (52.3cm x 45.3cm) IMAGE
Church, Swalecliffe
Watercolour. 20.5cm x 25.7cm. Signed
Mounted IMAGE
The Tate Gallery
Watercolour. 13.9cm x 17.2cm. Signed
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Hyde Park Corner at
Night
Watercolour. 19cm x 19.5cm. Signed
Mounted IMAGE
The Guildhall, London
Watercolour. 19.6cm x 25.3cm. Signed
Mounted IMAGE
Admiralty Arch,
Floodlit
Watercolour. 16.5cm x 18cm. Signed
Mounted IMAGE
Kings Arms, Kingsdown
Watercolour. 10.1cm x 13cm.
Mounted IMAGE
All unframed pictures can of course be framed if
required
Ernest Amor was a
figurative artist producing colourful, naively charming scenes of London, where
he lived, and the North and South East coast including Whitstable and
Shoreham. He studied at the Slade School
of Fine Art in the mid 1920s, contemporary with Rex
Whistler. He was a director of the
family leather goods manufacturing firm.
He was commissioned in the Artists Rifles and wounded
in France in 1917. Between the wars he
was a keen territorial in Queen Victorias Rifles winning the
Territorial Decoration. During World War
II he was Commandant of a prisoner of
war camp in England. He exhibited
11 works at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions between 1954 and 1964 and sold
pictures to many well known people including the film
actor Cary Grant who gave some to Prince Rainier of Monaco
