Lot 154AR
John Russell Chancellor(British, 1925-1984)First Home
Amended
15 April 2014, 14:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £11,500 inc. premium
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John Russell Chancellor (British, 1925-1984)
First Home
signed 'John Chancellor' (lower left)
oil on canvas
50.8 x 65.8cm (20 x 25 7/8in).
signed 'John Chancellor' (lower left)
oil on canvas
50.8 x 65.8cm (20 x 25 7/8in).
Footnotes
John Chancellor was born to English parents in the Lisbon area of Portugal in 1925. At seventeen he joined the Merchant Navy and was twice torpedoed. After the war he worked for a tug and barge firm and skippered a number of coastal craft. In 1970 he started painting and by 1972, had made the decision to give up the sea and become a professional artist. He specialised in scenes of historic sail, recognisable by their well researched and highly finished style. In 1973, his first one-man show of oils sold out in thirty minutes. His second show, held in 1976, was similarly successful and also sold out. Five years later, in 1981, an exhibition of Chancellor's watercolours sold out in ten minutes.
For most of his career, Chancellor lived in Brixham, South Devon and his book 'The Maritime Paintings of John Chancellor', was published posthumously in July 1984.
Due to his very short painting career, it is believed his output totalled fewer than 70 oil paintings and such is the popularity of his work that only a handful of works have ever gone through the London auction rooms.
Saleroom notices
Artist's Resale Rights apply.