Philip Wilson Steer, O.M.
(1860 – 1942)
Philip Wilson Steer was a landscape, coastal, portrait and genre painter. Steer studied at the Gloucester School of Art, Ecole des Beaux Arts and Julians in Paris, (1882). From 1895, he taught at the Slade School of Art. Four of Steer’s paintings were purchased by the Chantrey Bequest.
Provenance:
Sir Augustus Daniel The Hon John Freemantle and thence by descent
Exhibited:
London, New English Art Club, April 1903, no 56
Manchester, 1910
London, Goupil Gallery, 1921
Birkenhead, festival of Britain, Williamson Art Gallery, Wilson Steer Exhibition, July 1951, no 23.
London Arts Council of Great Britain, Tate Gallery and Tour, Philip Wilson Steer, Nov. - Dec 1960, no 46 ( shown in London only ).
Literature:
Arts Journal, 1906
The Studio, C, July-Dec., 1930, p.257 (illustrated)
R Ironside (Intro) Wilson Steer, London 1943, pl. 37
D S MacColl, Life Work and setting of Philip Wilson Steer, London 1945, p204
B Laughton, Philip Wilson Steer, Oxford, 1971, p.142
Exhibitions:
Agnews Beaux Arts Gallery
Barbizon House
Carfax & Co
Fine Arts Society
Glasgow Institute
Goupil & Fils
Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery
Manchester City Art Gallery
New English Art Club
Royal Academy
Royal Society of British Artists
Redfern Gallery
Royal Hibernian Gallery
Royal Scottish Acade