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ROBERT
THORNE WAITE R.W.S. (1842 – 1935)
“The
Cotswold Hills, Malvern in Distance”
Watercolour.
Signed. (Inscribed with title on reverse)
14
5/8” x 21 5/8” (371mm x 550mm)
Overall
framed size 23 5/8`” x 30 5/8” (600mm x 778mm) IMAGE
Robert Thorne Waite was a landscape and
figure painter. He was educated at Cheltenham Grammar School and studied
at South Kensington. He lived in London, Bettws-y-coed, Cheltenham and
latterly in Bournemouth. He was elected an Associate of the Royal
Watercolour Society in 1876 and a full Member in 1884. He is recorded as
exhibiting a total of 941 pictures at major venues including 496 at the Royal
Watercolour Society. He also exhibited at the Royal Academy, Leicester
Art Gallery, Agnew & Sons Gallery, the Dowdeswell Galleries, the Fine Art
Society, the Grosvenor Gallery, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, Manchester City
Art Gallery, the New Gallery, the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours,
the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Arthur Tooth and Sons Gallery and Walkers
Gallery London. He won a bronze medal at the Paris International
Exhibition and a retrospective exhibition of works from his studio was held at
Bourne Gallery, Reigate in March 1976. Examples of his work are in the
Public Collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Haworth Art Gallery
Accrington, Bethnal Green Museum, Birmingham City Art Gallery, Exeter Museum,
Hampshire Museum, City Art Gallery Manchester, the National Library of Wales,
Newport Art Gallery, Portsmouth City Museum, Sydney Art Gallery and Worthing
Art Gallery.
