Original Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 19″ x 23.5″
Framed Size: 25″ x 29″
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A rare opportunity to acquire one of Kyffin Williams’ famed portraits in Oil. The sitter was Mari Prichard daughter of Welsh poet and novelist Caradog Prichard, this is one of the paintings created while she sat for Kyffin, Kyffin was a friend of Caradog and asked Mari to sit for him so that he could master portraits of young sitters. This is the trail painting for the final version which was exhibited in the Royal Academy and now hangs in Highgate school where Kyffin taught.
There is also a Snowdonia landscape on the back of the portrait and the frame has been made so that either can be displayed by turning the canvas around, an added bonus to this rare piece.
This is an Original painting and comes framed ready to Hang.
Oil painting on reverse ‘Snowdonia landscape’ ( can be hung to show either side)
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Image of landscape on reverse: ( further images can be sent if requested)
Kyffin Williams was born in Anglesey in 1918. After leaving Shrewsbury School he was then articled to a firm of land agents in Pwllheli until 1938, when he joined the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, but was discharged in 1941 on account of his epilepsy. On the advice of a doctor he sought a new career in art attending the Slade school of art from 1941-1944. Kyffin went on to spend many years teaching art part-time at Highgate School in London. He used the rest of each week to focus on his own painting, and while his native Wales was a significant source of subject matter throughout his career, he also made painting trips abroad, most notably to Patagonia in 1968 as a Winston Churchill Fellow. In 1973 he returned to his beloved Wales and settled back on Anglesey in a house overlooking the Menai Strait, which remained his home for the rest of his life.
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