Marvelous 1800s Thomas WEBSTER SIGNED Engraving CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS Framed COA

Description: --> Four Centuries of the world's finest artists from our collection to yours --> Thank you for visiting... Click here for HOT DEALS | Click here for our NO RESERVE AUCTIONS Please feel free to ask any questions you might have about this work and we will answer promptly.International bidders are always welcome to bid and we combine shipping on all orders. --> Artist: Thomas Webster (English, 1800 – 1886)Title: The Christmas PuddingMedium: Antique engraving on wove paper after the original by master engraver William Ridgway (British, 1830-1900). Year: 1868 Signature: Signed in the plate.Condition: ExcellentDimensions: Image size 5 3/4 x 10 7/8 inches. Framed dimensions: Approximately 15 x 20 inches. Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials. Additional notes: This is not a modern reprint. The impression is more than 150 years old. The strike is crisp and the lines are sharp. Extra Information: Men, women and children gathered around a long table beneath a hanging lamp decorated with ivy, the pudding set before a woman at the head of the table to left, with a little girl on one side and a boy on the other, who sits up eagerly, spoon in hand, with three maids in the background, serving, a cat and dog curled up in the centre foreground. Artist Biography:Thomas Webster was an English painter of genre scenes of school and village life, many of which became popular through prints. He lived for many years at the artists' colony at Cranbrook in Kent. Webster was born in Ranelagh Street, Pimlico, London. His father was a member of the household of George III, and the son, having shown an aptitude for music, became a chorister, first at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, and then the Chapel Royal at St. James's Palace in London. He abandoned music for painting, however, and in 1821 was admitted as a student at the Royal Academy, exhibiting, in 1824, a portrait of "Mr Robinson and Family". In the following year he won first prize in the school of painting. In 1825, also, Webster exhibited Rebels shooting a Prisoner, at the Suffolk Street Gallery - the first of a series of pictures of schoolboy life for which he subsequently became known. In 1828 he exhibited The Gunpowder Plot' at the Royal Academy, and in 1829 The Prisoner and A Foraging Party Aroused at the British Institution. These were followed by numerous other pictures of school and village life at both galleries. In 1840 Webster was elected an associate of the Royal Academy (ARA), and in 1846 a Royal Academician (RA). He continued to be a frequent exhibitor there until 1876, when he retired from the academy. He exhibited a self-portrait in 1878, and Released from School, his last picture, in 1879. In 1856 Webster was photographed at the Photographic Institute in London by Robert Howlett, as part of a series of portraits of artists. The picture was among a group exhibited at the Art Treasures Exhibition in Manchester in 1857. From 1835 to 1856 Webster lived at The Mall, Kensington, but the last thirty years of his life were spent at the artists' colony in Cranbrook, Kent, where he died on 23 Sept. 1886. Webster became known for his genre paintings, often with children as subjects, depicting incidents from everyday life in a genial and humorous way. Many of these were exceedingly popular, particularly his Punch (1840) with which he procured associate membership of the Royal Academy. In the limited range of subjects which he made his own, Webster was unrivalled. Some of his pictures - such as Please remember the Grotto, Snowballing and maybe The Swing - were issued as prints by Abraham Le Blond. The Smile (1841), The Frown and The Boy with Many Friends, are among the numerous pictures which became well known by engravings. He also contributed work to volumes issued by the London-based Etching Club: The Deserted Village (1841), Songs of Shakespeare (1843), and Etch'd Thoughts (1844). Webster was influential on the work of fellow Cranbrook artists George Bernard O'Neill and Frederick Daniel Hardy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and is Fully Guaranteed to be Certified as Described Framing Any framing included in a listing is double matted and framed in a solid wood moulding. We can also frame any pieces not listed as such. Please contact us for pricing. We are usually half the price of a regular framer. Shipping Packages are shipped the next business day after confirmed payment is received. If you are making multiple purchases, please request an invoice so that we may combine shipping charges for you. Guarantee We guarantee all our listings to be 100% as described Returns Returns are accepted up to fourteen days after receiving your purchase. Buyer accepts responsibility for any additional shipping charges. | Click here for HOT DEALS | Click here for our NO RESERVE AUCTIONS |

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