Beehives in the Snow, Sweden

Location

Country: Sweden
City: Stockholm
Place: British Embassy

Born in Churchwater, Norfolk, William Ratcliffe studied design at Manchester School of Art under Walter Crane. He then worked for nearly 20 years as a wall-paper designer. In 1906 after moving to Letchworth where he met the artist, Harold Gilman, Ratcliffe resumed painting. He studied at the Slade School in 1910, exhibited at the Allied Artists Association from 1911 and associated with the Fitzroy Group and Camden Town Group. In 1913 he co-founded the London Group. After 1921 Ratcliffe focused more on watercolour and wood engraving. His first solo exhibition was held at Roland Browse and Delbanco Galleries in London (1946). He died in Hampstead, London in 1955.

Places

Sweden

Subjects

beehive, topography, landscape C20th, tree, winter, snow, garden, house

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

William Ratcliffe (1870 - 1955)

Title

Beehives in the Snow, Sweden

Date

1913

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 41.00 cm, width: 51.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from the New Art Centre, October 1962

Inscription

br: W. Ratcliffe / 1913

Provenance

Collection of Peter Collins; from whom purchased by Leicester Galleries, London; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in November 1962, as ‘Beehives in the Snow’

GAC number

5929