Artist: Noel Harry Leaver ARCA (1889-1951)
Entitled: Horseguards by Moonlight
Size: 26 x 36cm
Description: Watercolour, signed
Price: £3,950
Painter of Street, Town Scenes and
Landscape in Watercolour.
Studied at Burnley School of Art and
The Royal College of Art.
He travelled widely painting subjects
In France, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium,
Holland and North Africa.
He Exhibited at many Galleries both at
home and abroad. He taught at Halifax
Technical College 1912 - 1915.
He took up Watercolour painting in 1918.
Leaver lived for many years in Burnley.
Born March 1889 - Died July 1951.
Noel Harry Leaver was born in Austwick, Yorkshire in 1889 but is better known as a Burnley artist, the town in which he lived and worked for most of his life. He is most famous as the painter of distinctive North African views or 'Easterns', although his work includes a much wider range of landscapes, town views, interiors and even still life.
Early Years
His earlier paintings are softer and looser than his later more accomplished works, but still show his fine understanding of detail and construction. His was particularly known for his treatment of skies.
A huge talent he started his training as an architect and became one of the youngest ever pupils of the Royal College of Art when he started his studies there at age sixteen.
Leaver won numerous scholarships and travel bursaries and used them to travel to visit Europe and North Africa. His love of architectural form developed with his travels and was continued throughout his career. In was in this period that he started painting his famous North African scenes that made him so famous
A Successful Painter
Leaver soon gained an excellent reputation and his work became collected. His repertoire of subjects had grown and he was known not just for his Eastern scenes but also for his excellent English & Continental townscapes. His commissions now included views all over the world including many in the US.
Dating pictures
His earlier works in which he is still developing his style are usually signed in mixed lower & upper case Noel H LEAVER ARCA. In later life when his reputation was established he usually signed in capitals NOEL H LEAVER, dropping the ARCA.
Collecting his work
Leaver is probably most famous for his 'Eastern' views. These are his North African based works with their distinctive vivid blue skies, arches and mosques. These however constituted only a about a fifth of his output. He did many paintings of English cathedral cities and castles, including some internal church studies. Other areas were his landscapes, although these are less common in his later work and rarer still his flower studies.
His later work is generally more highly regarded expect to pay up to £6000 for a good example in excellent condition. Good early works can be bought for around £4000.
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