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Lacewing Fine Art
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Medium
Acrylic on canvas
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Signed/Inscribed/Dated
signed & dated 1998
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Dimensions
92.00cm wide
134.00cm high
(36.22 inches wide 52.76 inches high)
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Description / Expertise
RICHARD SHIRLEY SMITH (born 1935)
‘Rococo Chair with Frock’
Acrylic on canvas - signed & dated 1998 - 134x92cms
Richard Shirley Smith was born in Hampstead in 1935. Educated at Harrow School, he studied at The Slade School of Fine Art and in Rome.
His main output as an artist has been a sequence, over 40 years, of solo shows of paintings, illustrated books, tompe l’oeil murals, engravings and bookplates. All these works reflect his interest in Italian architecture, theatre, classical ruins, surrealism and still-life.
During the 1980’s he painted a number of mural decorations at Eaton Square, Princes Gate, Kensington Palace Gardens and others outside London. His fiftieth birthday was marked by a substantial Retrospective at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. After the exhibition, the museum acquired all his available engraved designs for their Print Room.
His very latest project has been as one of the artist for the
‘Highgrove Florilegium, published recently
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