Brittan Charles E 1870 1949 (1 results)

Original Artwork. Condition: Fine. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR signed Charles E. Brittan. The son of an artist Charles E. Brittan was born in Plymouth, and lived for many years in Tavistock, examples of his work are in the Plymouth Art Gallery collections. A contemporary of F. J. Widgery, and like him was commissioned to illustrated several books, including a sumptuous edition of the Exmoor classic romantic thriller Lorna Doone (1911). Brian Le Messurier, Dartmoor Artists, page 52, " He painted in both oils and watercolours, but is best known as a watercolourist. Latterly he favoured the lichen-covered rock or boulder in the foreground ".…