SIR HERBERT HUGHES-STANTON (1870-1937) Impressionist Landscape with Figure

A picturesque oil on canvas, Path on the edge of wood near Cagnes, France. Presented in a contemporary solid wood frame. Signed lower left and dated 1930.

Sir Herbert Edwin Pelham Hughes-Stanton (21 November 1870 – 2 August 1937) was a British watercolour and oil painter, predominantly of landscapes. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in November 1913, elected a full Royal Academician in 1920 and knighted in 1923. He was an Officier l’ordre Leopold II and a member of the Royal Watercolour Society from 1909 and its President from 1920 until 1936.

Hughes-Stanton was born in Chelsea, London, son of William Hughes who was of Welsh descent, a still-life painter, and educated in Corsham, near Bath.

His first paintings were exhibited in 1886; and he exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon, Royal Academy (from 1897), Grosvenor Gallery (from 1887), New Gallery, and Royal Institute of Oil Painters, and later at the Fine Art Society. He was awarded gold medals at a Paris Salon in 1907 and 1908.

Hughes-Stanton's works are held by collections including the Tate, the Welsh National Gallery, National Musée, Buenos Aires, Musée Royal, Florence, Musée Modern, Rome, Barcelona Museum, Royal Gallery, Tokyo, Sydney National Gallery, Adelaide National Gallery, Melbourne Museum, Auckland Museum, and the Wellington Gallery, and in the permanent galleries of Manchester, Liverpool, Bradford, Brighton, Aberdeen and Oldham. 

The painting is in superb colour and condition and is sold ready to hang.

Frame 68cm x 57cm

Picture 48cm x 40cm

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