ARTIST: Captain George Drummond Fish (Ireland, British, 1876 - 1938)
NAME: Coastal Landscape
MEDIUM: watercolor on paper
CONDITION: Very good. Framed under glass.
SIGHT SIZE: 12 x 18 inches / 30 x 45 cm
FRAME SIZE: 20 x 25 inches / 50 x 63 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right
PROVENANCE: Malcolm Innes Gallery, Edinburgh Scotland (has original gallery label on verso)
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
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BIOGRAPHY:
Captain George Drummond Fish was known for his portraits and landscape paintings. He studied at Liverpool School of Art and was awarded a travelling scholarship allowing him to move around Paris, Brussels and Antwerp.Exhibited from 1906-1938. Many of his works depict accurate watercolours of scenery from the west coast.George Drummond Fish saw service with the 6th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles at Gallipoli during WW1, as part of the 29th Brigade of the 10th (Irish) Division. There he produced numerous military paintings and sketches of the bleak landscape of the Gallipoli peninsula, including eight watercolour sketches that were used to illustrate Henry Hanna's book "The Pals at Suvla Bay", which recorded the exploits of the Irish Rugby Football Union volunteers of "D" Company of the 7th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers during the Gallipoli campaign. Three of Drummond-Fish's watercolours were also used to illustrate Bryan Cooper's "The 10th (Irish) Division at Gallipoli".Watercolours of Gallipoli by Drummond-Fish are also held by the National Army Museum, London, and the Royal Irish Regiment, Ballymena. In the post-war years, Drummond-Fish painted extensively in Ireland, Wales and Scotland, specialising in remote moorland and coastal scenes which, with their rugged terrain, perhaps provided a haunting reminder of the Gallipoli landscape which he had painted during the campaign of 1915.