26th Aug, 2020 14:00

The British & International Pictures Auction

 
  Lot 3
 

IRISH LANDSCAPE, AN OIL BY MAURICE CANNING WILKS

* MAURICE CANNING WILKS (IRISH 1910 - 1984),
IRISH LANDSCAPE
oil on board, signed
46cm x 59cm
Framed.
Note: Maurice Canning Wilks was a landscape and portrait painter born in Belfast. He was educated at Malone Public School and then at Belfast College of Art. When Wilks was only nineteen, he exhibited for the first time at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, and then went on to exhibit his work in London, Montreal, Boston and Toronto, many of which were solo exhibitions. He was elected an associate member of the RHA and a full member of the Royal Ulster Academy. Wilks was much inspired by the work of James Humbert Craig and his own portrait of Craig is in Bangor Town Hall. Maurice’s subject matter is from all over Ireland but he was particularly keen on Donegal and the West of Ireland. However, he was also a very successful portrait painter who flourished in commissioned portraits. Towards the later years of his life, Wilks had a studio in Dublin, which inspired him to paint many everyday scenes of Dublin. His belief was, ‘hard work and regular hours’.

 

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Estimated at £800 - £1,200


 
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