Pair Of Oil Paintings By Ernest Charles Walbourn

Pair of oil paintings by Ernest Charles Walbourn “A Quiet River Scene” and 1872-1927. Walbourn was a popular painter of rural and upland landscapes. Exhibits regularly at the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of British Artist. Ernest Charles Walbourn Biography Ernest Charles Walbourn (16 February 1872 Dalston, Middlesex – 29 June 1927) was a British landscape painter of rural and agricultural scenes. He was the second of five children and was educated locally. Her father, who owned property in Tasmania/Australia, initially disapproved of her artistic ambitions, but later helped establish a studio in the family home and finance her artistic training. British artist Ernest Walbourn was a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters at the turn of the 20th century, and he specialized in rural scenes of bygone England. Ernest Walbourn's paintings evoke an idealized past, with a style that is both realistic and dreamy. His work was popular during his lifetime, and he exhibited his artwork for 25 years in major exhibitions across the country. After marrying fellow artist Eva Knight in 1906, many of Ernest Walbourn's paintings were a joint effort between the husband and wife team, with Eva painting the background of his larger works