For BADA Week 2023 Sarah Colegrave has chosen to feature this delightful view of Haresfield Beacon, near Painswick by Gloucestershire artist Charles March Gere.
Gere was born in Gloucester and studied at the Birmingham School of Art under E R Taylor and he joined the staff of the art school in 1893. In the 1890s he worked as an illustrator, contributing to The Quest and books illustrated by the Birmingham Group and designing the frontispiece for William Morris’s News from Nowhere (Kelmscott Press, 1892).
In his early career he was involved in a number of the arts and crafts, designing embroidery, metalwork and stained glass and painting the reredos in the Chapel at Madresfield. Gradually, however, he became almost exclusively a landscape painter.
In about 1904 he and his sister Margaret settled in Painswick, near Stroud, and many of his subjects were found in the surrounding Cotswolds, which was to become his favourite painting ground.
He exhibited at the New Gallery, Society of Painters in Tempera, Royal Academy, New English Art Club, Royal Watercolour Society and Art Workers Guild. A memorial exhibition was held in Gloucester in 1963.
Image caption:
Charles March Gere, RA, RWS (1884-1963).
Haresfield Beacon, near Painswick.
Watercolour heightened with scratching out over traces of pencil.
Signed with monogram and dated l.r.: 1909.
19.5 x 34.5cm., 7¾” x 13½”.(frame size 43 x 57 cm., 17” x 22½”)
Provenance:
Benjamin Martin Chadler, Hidcote House;
Paul Whitfield Collection.
The work will be on view on Sarah Colegrave's Stand at the CADA Fair which opens to the public from November 17-19, 2023 at Compton Verney, Warwickshire. Click here for further details.
Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park
Warwickshire
CV35 9HZ
United Kingdom