Easel painting – IMS Photography

John Clayton

Ian Malpass-Scott — Sun, 10 May 2026 17:48:00 +0000

John Clayton (10 June 1792 – 14 July 1890) was an antiquarian and town clerk of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, during the nineteenth century. He worked with the builder Richard Grainger and architect John Dobson to redevelop the centre of the city in a neoclassical style (Grainger Town), and Clayton Street in Newcastle is named after him. He did much to preserve the remains of Hadrian’s Wall.

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Chesters Roman Fort, Northumberland
Material: Oil on canvas
Artist: Edward Sawyer (1828–1902)
Date: c.1862

Image Details
Date: 10 May 2026
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Wide Camera 26mm ƒ/1.8
Focal Length: 26mm
Aperture: ƒ/1.8
Shutter Speed: 1/50s
ISO: 250
Licensing: Image of an English Heritage asset. This image cannot be licensed.

Chesters

Ian Malpass-Scott — Sun, 10 May 2026 17:48:00 +0000

Visitors have been coming to Chesters since the 19th century, as seen in this painting of the east gate by David Mossman (1869).

Provenance: Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Trust

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Chesters Roman Fort, Northumberland
Material: Watercolour on paper
Artist: David Mossman (1825–1901)
Date: 1869

Image Details
Date: 10 May 2026
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Wide Camera 26mm ƒ/1.8
Focal Length: 26mm
Aperture: ƒ/1.8
Shutter Speed: 1/1,490s
ISO: 25
Licensing: Image of an English Heritage asset. This image cannot be licensed.

A Park in Autumn

Ian Malpass-Scott — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:48:00 +0000

South Shields artist Tom Finch was perhaps best known for his work in watercolours and for leading the Tom Finch Watercolour Group, which he founded in the 1970s. He exhibited regularly across the borough. He also produced many oil paintings.

This example, produced in 1973 and recently accessioned into the South Tyneside collection, presents a view of a park in autumn. Finch has focused his composition on the shapes of the trees and the colours of the leaves. Human activity is evident in the curving pathway, but no figures disturb the stillness of the scene.

Object description
Type: Easel Painting
Location: South Shields Museum, Tyne & Wear
Material: Oil on board
Artist: Tom Finch (1918-2003)
Date: 1973

Image Details
Date: 4 May 2026
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Wide Camera 26mm ƒ/1.8
Focal Length: 26mm
Aperture: ƒ/1.8
Shutter Speed: 1/50s
ISO: 320
Licensing: Image of a North East Museums asset. This image cannot be licensed.

Homewards

Ian Malpass-Scott — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:48:00 +0000

William Boot was born in Manchester and moved to London where he worked as an artist and illustrator, and also as a writer. He was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists and The Arts Club and exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy.

in Homewards Boot shows an idyllic rural scene.

A mother and child pause in a lush landscape close to the elegant trunk of a silver birch tree. The artist has enjoyed capturing the light and tones of the grass, thistles, flowers and leaves which spread all around. in the background nestles a cottage, perhaps the destination of the lingering figures who seem, like the viewer, to be in awe of the beauty of nature.

Object description
Type: Easel Painting
Location: South Shields Museum, Tyne & Wear
Material: Oil on canvas
Artist: William Henry James Boot (1848 – 1918)
Date: c.1885-1910

Image Details
Date: 4 May 2026
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Telephoto Camera 52mm ƒ/2.4
Focal Length: 52mm
Aperture: ƒ/2.4
Shutter Speed: 1/50s
ISO: 400
Licensing: Image of a North East Museums asset. This image cannot be licensed.

After Rain

Ian Malpass-Scott — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:48:00 +0000

After Rain by Niels Møller Lund (1863–1916).

Provenance: gift from Mrs M. Waddington, 1926, on loan from Shipley Art Gallery

Object description
Type: Easel Painting
Location: South Shields Museum, Tyne & Wear
Material: Oil on canvas
Artist: Niels Møller Lund (1863–1916)
Date: c.1889–1892

Image Details
Date: 4 May 2026
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Telephoto Camera 52mm ƒ/2.4
Focal Length: 52mm
Aperture: ƒ/2.4
Shutter Speed: 1/33s
ISO: 400
Licensing: Image of a North East Museums asset. This image cannot be licensed.

Frenchman’s Bay

Ian Malpass-Scott — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:48:00 +0000

Charles George Jefferson was born in South Shields. He painted from a young age and developed into a skilled artist. He began exhibiting in 1880 when he was living in Glasgow, with works shown at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and the Royal Scottish Academy. He returned to South Shields in the 1890s and had works shown in various Art Club exhibitions in the town.

Jefferson produced work in both oil and watercolour. He was best known as a painter of Scottish landscapes, in particular scenes of the Arran, Argyll and Perthshire areas. This painting shows the rocky cove of Frenchman’s Bay in South Shields.

Object description
Type: Easel Painting
Location: South Shields Museum, Tyne & Wear
Material: Oil on canvas
Artist: Charles George Jefferson (1831-1902)
Date: c.1889–1892

Image Details
Date: 4 May 2026
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Telephoto Camera 52mm ƒ/2.4
Focal Length: 52mm
Aperture: ƒ/2.4
Shutter Speed: 1/50s
ISO: 500
Licensing: Image of a North East Museums asset. This image cannot be licensed.

The Last Boat In

Ian Malpass-Scott — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:48:00 +0000

The Last Boat In by Charles Napier Hemy (1841–1917).

Provenance: purchased from Dunelm Fine Art with the assistance of the Victoria and Albert Museum Purchase Grant Fund, 1990

Object description
Type: Easel Painting
Location: South Shields Museum, Tyne & Wear
Material: Oil on canvas
Artist: Charles Napier Hemy (1841–1917)
Date: 1878

A Gleam Before the Storm

Ian Malpass-Scott — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:48:00 +0000

Alfred East was born in Kettering in Northamptonshire, and as a young boy showed a keen interest in drawing and painting. At the age of fifteen he began working in a shoe and boot factory, and by 1874 he had been promoted to a position representing the company in Glasgow, where he was living with his wife. Here he began his formal art education, studying at the Glasgow

career, he left the shoe trade and went to France School of Art. Deciding to pursue art as a full-time

where he studied at the Académie Julian in Paris in the 1880s. Several other artists represented in this exhibition also attended the Académie Julian.

East was influenced by the French Barbizon school of artists, which was active from about 1830-1870, and named after the village of Barbizon on the edge of the Forest of Fontainebleau. They painted romantic pictures of rural landscapes and scenes of village life. Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (whose work was admired by Claude Monet) had been drawn to the forest to paint in 1829 and was linked with the Barbizon artists.

East was an accomplished and prolific artist. He toured Great Britain, France, Italy, Spain and Japan producing sketches, watercolours and oils. From 1883 he exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, and having been elected an Associate in 1899, he was made a full member in 1913, In 1906 he was elected as President of the Royal Society of British Artists. That same year he published an illustrated book describing his artistic techniques entitled The Art of Landscape Painting in Oil Colour. In the book’s preface he wrote:

The greatest errors in landscape painting are to be found – contradictory as it may appear – not so much in the matter of technique as in the painter’s attitude toward Nature”

In this painting East has carefully depicted the effects of strong sunlight on the trees and distant landscape, contrasting naturalistically with the shade thrown by the storm clouds. A shepherd gazes at his flock grazing beneath the brees under the ominous sky, held within the power and wonder of nature.

Provenance: Lain Art Gallery collection

Object description
Type: Easel Painting
Location: South Shields Museum, Tyne & Wear
Material: Oil on canvas
Artist: Alfred East (1844-1913)
Date: c.1900

Landscape

Ian Malpass-Scott — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:48:00 +0000

Jean-Baptist-Camille Corot was a French landscape and portrait artist who was influential in the development of landscape painting. Many of his paintings were balanced, structured compositions of historical, Biblical or classical subjects, but he also painted idyllic rural scenes. He worked with soft, harmonious tones of green, blue, silver and grey.

Corot, like many artists of his time, created oil sketches outside, working directly from nature, as preparatory ideas and test-pieces for works later painted in the studio. Corot’s desire and ability to reproduce the character of the sketches and their naturalistic representation of light in his finished paintings attracted the Impressionist artists, including Claude Monet. When Monet visited his first Salon exhibition in Paris in 1859, he wrote to the artist Eugène Boudin that …most of the landscape painters were represented…’ including’… some nice Corot’s…

This painting is typical of Corot’s atmospheric compositions of country life, with a quiet narrative dominated by the carefully observed depiction of trees. Previously, it was thought to have been painted by a close follower of Corot’s, but, following cleaning and analysis in preparation for this exhibition, the evidence presented in the style and signature strongly suggest that this is an original Corot.

Provenance: Bequeathed by J. A. D. Shipley, 1909. Shipley Art Gallery collection

Object description
Type: Easel Painting
Location: South Shields Museum, Tyne & Wear
Material: Oil on canvas
Artist: Jean-Baptist-Camille Corot (1796-1875)
Date: unknown

The Primrose Gatherers

Ian Malpass-Scott — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:48:00 +0000

Rowland Henry Hill was born in Halifax and studied at the Halifax and Bradford Schools of Art. He displayed his work in many regional exhibitions, and from 1897 he also exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy in London. His work was shown internationally at the Paris Salon and the Venetian Biennale.

Hill settled at the village of Hinderwell on the North Yorkshire coast, close to the fishing village of Staithes. He was a member of the Staithes Group of artists who gathered together to capture the everyday life of the fishermen and their families struggling to make a living. This art-colony, which was most active between 1894 and 1909, involved about 25 artists, including Laura Knight, Harold Knight, Joseph R Bagshawe and Robert Jobling.

The Group drew inspiration from the work of the French Impressionists, particularly Monet and Renoir, and painted in oil and watercolour en plein air (outdoors).

Provenance: Laing Art Gallery collection

Object description
Type: Easel Painting
Location: South Shields Museum, Tyne & Wear
Material: Oil on canvas
Artist: Rowland Henry Hill (1873-1952)
Date: 1920

Image Details
Date: 4 May 2026
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Telephoto Camera 52mm ƒ/2.4
Focal Length: 52mm
Aperture: ƒ/2.4
Shutter Speed: 1/50s
ISO: 320
Licensing: Image of a North East Museums asset. This image cannot be licensed.