French Revolutionaries and a lady, 1907, grisaille watercolour, heightened with bodycolour, depicting an interior scene with a young lady confronted by several men with swords and a rifle, signed and dated lower right, 38 x 33cm (15 x 13ins), framed and glazed, and with label of J.S. Maas & Co Ltd on backboard Provenance: Purchased by the current owner from the Maas Gallery in 1987. Portrait artist and illustrator Frank Craig studied at the Lambeth School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools. His illustrative output for periodicals was profuse; he worked for Scribner's Magazine, The Graphic, Harper's and Nash's Magazine, amongst others. He was also much in demand as a book illustrator, and his work accompanied some of the era's most famous authors: Rudyard Kipling, R.W. Chambers, F. Marion Crawford, Arnold Bennett, and Maurice Hewlett, to name a few. Craig exhibited at the Royal Academy and in Paris, and won a gold medal for portraiture at one of the early 20th century Paris salons. He is particularly known for his use of lighting and his ability to stage a scene. (1)
French Revolutionaries and a lady, 1907, grisaille watercolour, heightened with bodycolour, depicting an interior scene with a young lady confronted by several men with swords and a rifle, signed and dated lower right, 38 x 33cm (15 x 13ins), framed and glazed, and with label of J.S. Maas & Co Ltd on backboard Provenance: Purchased by the current owner from the Maas Gallery in 1987. Portrait artist and illustrator Frank Craig studied at the Lambeth School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools. His illustrative output for periodicals was profuse; he worked for Scribner's Magazine, The Graphic, Harper's and Nash's Magazine, amongst others. He was also much in demand as a book illustrator, and his work accompanied some of the era's most famous authors: Rudyard Kipling, R.W. Chambers, F. Marion Crawford, Arnold Bennett, and Maurice Hewlett, to name a few. Craig exhibited at the Royal Academy and in Paris, and won a gold medal for portraiture at one of the early 20th century Paris salons. He is particularly known for his use of lighting and his ability to stage a scene. (1)
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