" River Orwell - Low Tide - Pin Mill Harbor, Suffolk ".
Original oil on wood panel by Kenneth Denton ( b.1932 ): signed lower left - " Kenneth Denton ": image/ panel size: 29 1/2 inches by 19 3/4 ( 75 x 50.5 ): titled verso " Pin Mill - Suffolk - Kenneth Denton ": circa: 1970: framed: frame size: 35 x 25 inches ( 63.5 x 89cm ). NOTE: Actual color is closest to that in my third photo taken at an angle.
PROVENANCE: Michael Thompson Gallery / San Francisco, Ca.
Pin Mill is located on the banks of the River Orwell at the heart of one of Suffolk's areas of outstanding natural beauty. Situated on the Shotley peninsula, it is a haven of tranquillity, loved by artists, walkers and birdwatchers. The 17th century "Butt & Oyster" inn is so close to the river that it can serve pints of ale through the window to yachtsmen at high tide.
Pin Mill had links to smugglers in the 19th century and it was the setting for Arthur Ransome's book "We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea".
Kenneth Denton was born in Chatham, Kent ( England ) in 1932. He studied at the Rochester School of Art. His works include British and Continental landscpes but it is for his thickly painted, textural, atmospheric marine paintings that he is best known. His Suffolk coastal views are especially sought after. Denton's work, in the tradition of Turner, Constable, and the seascapes of of Boudin and Edward Seago, has achieved international recognition, including numerous exhibitions in the Bond St Galleries in London and over forty solo exhibitions throughout the world. Today Denton continues to paint from his Priory Farm Studio in Norfolk.
Denton has been recognised with such accolades as the highly selective and sought after membership of THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MARINE ARTISTS as well as FELLOWSHIP OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTS and INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY MARINE PAINTERS.
Museum collections include The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Littlehampton Museum, Sussex, England, Laren Museum, Amsterdam, Holland, National Maritime Museum, Mystic Seaport, Connecticut, U.S.A.
REFERENCE: “Who’s Who in Art” Trade Art Press (1976 on), “Who’s Who in the Commonwealth” I.B.C. (1976 on), “Men of Achievement” I.B.C. (1977 on), “Distinguished People of Today” Debretts (1989 on), “People Today” (1991), “Directory of Sea Painters”, “Dictionary of Artists Signatures”, “20th Century Marine Painting” Brook-Hart, “100 Years of Traditional British Painting” David & Charles, “British Painters of the Coast and Sea” Charles Hemming, “Dictionary of International Biography” I.B.C., “Painters and Sculptures of the 20th Century” Antique Collectors Club “A Celebration of Marine Art, 50 years of the Royal Society of Marine Artists”
The Connoisseur; La Review Moderne; Yachting World; Yachting Monthly; Antiques; Shell Magazine; Arts Review; Country Life; Kent Life; Sussex Life; East Anglian Lifestyle; Essex Countryside Magazine; Sharman Newspapers; Eastern Daily Press; King’s Lynn News and Advertiser; The Norfolk Journal; The Field.
This work is in excellent condition: the oil is framed in a fine new traditional marine style wood frame with gold leafed inner liner frame ( cost of frame was over $250 ): frame is also in excellent condition. ( frame shape distortion is from my camera lens only ).
NOTE: The last sale of a Pinn Mill oil in public auction was a work titled " Sunshine and Showers Pin Mill ", 19 x 29 inches, that sold at G.A. Key Auction, Norfolk on 15 April, 2005 for $1,439 ( GB 760 ), not including the added 15% buyer's premium.
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