£62,500
DIMENSIONS: (unframed) 29.00 x 36.00 in./73.7 x 91.4 cm
SIGNATURE: Signed lower right
MEDIUM: Oil on canvas
This beautiful painting sees Charles Sims demonstrating his incredible talent, depicting two young children frolicking on the beach. He was a highly regarded artist having won the Royal Academy Schools Silver Medal in 1893 and the Landseer Scholarship in 1895.
Charles Sims was a British painter whose subjects focused on portraiture, landscapes and decorative paintings. Here Sims has depicted a brother and sister play-fighting at the beach, with the sea right at their feet.
Sims was born in 1873 in London and enrolled at the South Kensington College of Art in 1890, and soon after moved to Paris for two years to study at the Academie Julian. Additonally, Sims was enrolled at the Royal Academy School in 1898. However, he was expelled from the Academy in 1895.
Private Collection, United Kingdom
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