Philip Wilson Steer

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