CHARLES WALTER RADCLYFFE (1817
– 1903)
"The Golden Grasshopper
at Henley Regatta"
Watercolour heightened with bodycolour. 9
½" x 13 5/8".
Signed
(In 1888 the Golden Grasshopper, belonging to
Mr. R. Radclyffe,
was moored at Phyllis Court) IMAGE
Charles Walter Radclyffe was the son of
the engraver William Radclyffe and the brother of
Edward and William Radclyffe Yr, engravers and
painters. He worked in Birmingham as a landscape painter, engraver and
lithographer. He exhibited in Birmingham from 1846 and in London from 1849 and painted many parts of England, Wales and Scotland. Work
by him has been published in The Palace of Blenheim 1842, Memorials
of Shrewsbury School 1843, Memorials of Charterhouse 1844, Memorials of Eton College 1844, memorials
of Westminster School 1845 and Memorials of Winchester College 1847. Examples of work by Charles Walter Radclyffe are in the Victoria and Albert Museum and Birmingham City Art Gallery.
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