William Langley

Walter Langley, RI (British, 1852-1922) A Flemish peasant signed 'WALTER LANGLEY' (lower left) oil on canvas 102 x 93cm (40 3/16 x 36 5/8in). PROVENANCE: Sale, Sotheby's London, 22 June 1994, lot 22 Sale, Sotheby's London, 15 November 2011, lot 86 Private collection, UK EXHIBITED: London, Royal Academy, 1907, no. 290 Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Autumn Exhibition , 1907 Southport Art Gallery, 1908 Manchester, Royal Manchester Institution, 1908 Newlyn, Passmore Edwards Gallery, 1910 Plymouth, City Museum and Art Gallery, 1910 Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Annual Exhibition of European Art , 1912, no. 169 LITERATURE: Royal Academy Illustrated, 1907 Roger Langley, Walter Langley: Pioneer of the Newlyn Art Colony , 1907, pp. 135, 171, ill. p. 129 Roger Langley, Walter Langley, From Birmingham to Newlyn , 2011, p.92-93.

William Langley, British 1852-1922- Coastal landscape; oil on canvas, signed, 41x61cm: William Langley, British 1852-1922- Coastal landscape; oil on canvas, signed, 40.7x61cm: William Langley, British 1852-1922- "Fort l'Essqillon, Cenis"; watercolour, signed and inscribed, 36x54cm £150-200 Antique & Collector's Auction 19 January 2013

Lot 577 William Langley (British, 1852-1922) Thatched Cottage with Children Feeding Chickens Signed "William.Langley" l.r. Oil on canvas, 20 x 30 in. (50.5 x 76.0 cm), framed. Condition: Scattered paint losses, craquelure, varnish inconsistencies, surface grime. Estimate $1,000-1,500

Lot Description Walter Langley (1852-1922) A Maid of Brittany signed and dated 'W Langley 1882' (lower left) pencil and watercolour with gum arabic and with scratching out, on paper 30 x 17 in. (76.2 x 43.2 cm.) Lot Condition Report I confirm that I have read this Important Notice and agree to its terms. View Condition Report Provenance Anonymous sale; Biddle and Webb, Birmingham, 3 March 1978, catalogue untraced. Literature C. Fox and F. Greenacre, Painting in Newlyn 1880-1930, London, exhibition catalogue, 1985, pp. 62, 103. View Lot Notes › Shortly after his first visit to Newlyn, the Cornish fishing village where he would become so successful, Langley set off to Brittany in 1881 with the artist Edwin Harris (1856-1906). Basing themselves in Pont Aven, Harris and Langley were captivated by 'the costume of the natives, who are popularly supposed to gain their living by washing one another's clothes in the intervals of posing as models, is probably the most picturesque in the whole of Finisterre' (see R. Langley, Walter Langley: Pioneer of the Newlyn Art Colony, Bristol, 1997, p. 53).

William Langley (1852-1922) oil on canvas, 'A Quiet Corner near Newquay', signed, 16 x 24in. Oil on original canvas which is just starting to sag and has a rather dried out appearance, a fine but stable craquelure running throughout the paint, stretcher marks showing principally across the top and left side, also rather dirty and will need a good clean, however should restore to good effect, colours good and bright, in a fairly modern crackle effect gilt frame, Woodhouse of Harrow label verso.