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George Edward Horton (1859 - 1950)
A Canal Scene Venice

 
George Horton, a member of the Bewick Club and the Cullercoats Colony, was born in North Shields. This is a lovely pastel image of Venice by the ever popular North east artist

Pastel     8" x 9"     signed and inscribed with location. 


ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

George Edward Horton (1859 - 1950)

George Horton, a member of the Bewick Club and the Cullercoats Colony, was born in North Shields and, on leaving school became a delivery boy for his father, a butcher. His mother, bizarrely, asked him to leave home when she found him drawing an animal's skull. As he then decided to become a professional artist, having moved in with relatives, his mother's reaction did the art world a service! Horton exhibited widely in the North and moved to London in 1918. From the late 1890s he made regular trips to Holland. His work is very distinctive and has always been considered undervalued commercially. Hopefully the recent recognition and increase in value of works by the Staithes Group and linked Impressionist artists of the Bewick Club and Cullercoats Colony will lead to Horton's work receiving the acclaim it deserves

Other paintings by this artist:

  • Amble, Northumberland
  • Sharpness Point, Tynemouth
  • Near Norfolk
  • Mussells boat on the Maas, Holland
  • Dordrecht, Holland
  • Steam Tug - believed on the Tyne
  • Tynemouth Long Sands towards Cullercoats
  • Whittle Mill, Ovingham on Tyne
  • Bradley Mill, Wylam, Northumberland
  • The Bents, South Shields Looking to Tynemouth
  • The Wooden Bridge Bank, Bedford Street, North Shields
  • Comical Corner, South Shields on Tyne
  • The Free Library, Stoke Newington
  • St. Mary's Catholic Church, Hexham
  • King Edwards Bay,Tynemouth
  • Dutch Windmill
  • Marsden Rock
  • Boyle's Cottages, North Shields
  • St Mary's church,  Stoke Newington  10" x 7"  Pencil and wash
  • Castle Garth, Newcastle
  • Newcastle Upon Tyne, looking towards Byker

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