Richard George Mathews (English 1870=1955) “Tower Rye” Aquatint, c. 1930, Signed & Titled in Pencil, Excellent Condition. Edition Not Noted. Archival Mat Size: 16 x 20" (40.8 x 50.7 cm) Plate Size: 4 15/16 x 6 15/16" (12.4 x 17.5 cm) Sheet Size: 8 3/8 x 11 1/2" (21.3 x 29.2 cm) Etcher Richard George Mathews was born in Montreal, Canada in 1870. After publishing drawings for the satirical newspaper The Grip in 1892 & sketching in New York, he returned to Canada to work as reportage artist for The Montreal Star. At the Star, his portraits included the writer Rudyard Kipling (1900). Moving to London in 1907, he contributed shaded sketches & Edwardian celebrity portraits to the Star & to the British illustrated magazines The Bystander & The Graphic. During the Great War, he painted several pictures featuring British & Canadian soldiers & in the 1920s produced many celebrity portraits, including the journalist Arnold Bennett (1920) & writer Joseph Conrad (1921). By the mid-1930s, Mathews was increasingly preoccupied by architectural & landscape subjects & in 1935 accepted a commission to draw London scenes for the society magazine The Tatler. During the London Blitz & in the immediate post war years, R.G. Mathews was appointed as a war artist by the War Artists’ Advisory Committee (WAAC). Free Shipping in US Richard George Mathews | English 1870-1955, “Tower Rye”, Aquatint, C. 1930, Signed in Pencil, | Free Shipping
