£15,000
MEDIUM: Watercolour
DIMENSIONS: (unframed) 10.6 x 15 in. / 27 x 39 cm
This watercolour work by the artist Edward Seago focuses on a Roman fountain, with water spraying from the arms of a stone figure reclining. Behind there are the hints of colour and stonework characteristic of the historic architecture of Rome, as well as Mediterranean poplar trees.
English artist Edward Seago mostly painted oils and watercolours, travelling widely during his life starting from the 1930s when he joined a circus to Venice. He also visited Northern France, Holland, Portugal, Hong Kong, Antarctica and Africa.
Private collection, United Kingdom
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Seago was born in Norwich, to a family of Coal Merchants. He attended Norwich School, and never received any formal artistic training. He taught himself to paint, although received advice from the acclaimed equestrian painter Alfred Munnings. The boy’s talent was quickly noticed, and he won a prize for drawing at the age of 14 from the Royal Drawing Society.
This influenced his decision to make a career as a painter, despite his parents’ disapproval. Seago took most of his inspiration from the French Impressionists, and tried to emulate their technique of painting ‘en plein air.’ The artist was unable to fight during the Second World War, due to heart problems, but was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, and was employed to develop camouflage techniques. He continued to paint during the War, and gave a lot his pictures away to fellow soldiers.
Seago was popular as an individual and as an artist. His admirers included the Aga Khan III, who was an avid patron of the artist’s landscape paintings, as well as the British Royal Family. Those who wished to buy one of Seago’s paintings had to queue at his exhibitions, with the exception of the late Queen Mother. It is known that the Queen Mother bought so many of Seago’s paintings that the artist routinely gave her two a year – for her birthday and at Christmas. Prince Philip also invited Seago on a tour of the Antarctic in 1956, and the artist’s subsequent paintings still hang at Balmoral.
