MAGNOLIA GRANDIFLORA

Smith, Ann

Publication Date: 1998

About this Item

A fine, framed and glazed, original botanical watercolour painting of Magnolia grandiflora, 490 x 345 mm [frame 700 x 560 mm] with a double, white, acid-free, conservation mount, and clean-lined solid hardwood frame with a 'limed' finish. By the late botanical artist Ann Smith, signed and dated 1998. The frame is very slightly marked, otherwise in very good condition, ready to hang. [Artist's biography: Ann Smith was a goldsmith by trade, a highly skilled artisan working out of Chipping Campden in the Cotswolds, but with a passion for botanical illustration. She was a member of various botanical art societies; she exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Botanical Art exhibitions held in The Lindley Hall, London; for the 2004 exhibition she prepared a mixed collection of botanical works including studies of Romneya coulteri and Papaver orientalis 'Beauty of Livermere', in a later exhibition she presented a themed collection featuring various Meconopsis (blue popy) species and cultivars. Ann Smith was an accomplished botanical artist who painted with great fidelity, her plants morphologically accurate and finely detailed, but her paintings are always well composed and perhaps it is this, her strong sense of composition, that is her greatest quality.] We hold a number of original paintings by this artist, so please enquire if you are looking for particular botanical subjects. Shipping cost will require an adjustment. [In an exhibition held by the artist, this work was priced at £750]. Seller Inventory # 037266

Bibliographic Details

Title: MAGNOLIA GRANDIFLORA

Publication Date: 1998

Binding: Framed

Illustrator: Ann Smith

Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Book Type: Painting