Code: 6052
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A fine circa 1900 English impressionist oil on canvas depicting a seascape with waves, by Hugh Percy Heard.
Excellent quality and condition work by this important St. Ives School artist who exhibited widely, including at the Royal Academy, London.
Signed lower right and presented in a painted wood frame.
Artist: Hugh Percy Heard (British, 1866-1940)
Title: Seascape
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 16 x 22 inches (40.5 x 55.5 cm) including the frame
Hugh Percy Heard was the son of a merchant trader in the Baltic trading market, and was born and brought up in Bideford, Devon.
A student in St Ives with Norman Wilkinson, he visited Paris in 1900 with him and Reginald Guy Kortright. He ran the Westward Ho! Art Club and became head of the Bideford School of Art.
Hugh Percy Heard exhibited at the RBA (Royal Society of British Artists), LA (Liverpool Academy), DG (Dudley Gallery) and the RA (Royal Academy).
