BCD House Party 2020 Two Pears Show & Tell Jigsaws 4
A well known BCD member and ebay seller brought along these two fine examples from his collection, which has specialised in a number of areas, including Pears jigsaws and jigsaws by Enid Stocken. Here are examples from the former.
L: This is 'Making Friends', a famous Pears Print of a charming Victorian painting showing two small girls feeding the ducks beside the river. This print was issued with the 1900 Pears Christmas Annual and is by the artist Yeend King.
R: This is a superb 414pc vintage push-fit jigsaw cut from a print in the 1907 Pears Album. I love the fine, accurate line-cutting around all the figures and the way the ice has been cut to mimic the score marks of the skaters' blades. The image, entitled 'A Merry Christmas' is by Frank Dadd. It is popular with jigsaw cutters, and also featured in the range of Wentworth for several years and I have also seen cardboard versions. A number of other vintage jigsaws of this painting have turned up over the years - stgenix sold a 600pc push-fit line-cut one with 4repl in 2018 and I recently bought one of 350pc from the collection of Dave Cooper with an interesting cut and few whimsies.
John Henry Yeend King 1855–1924
Landscape and genre painter in oil and watercolour. Born 21 August 1855 in London. Apprenticed for three years to the firm of O'Connor, glass painters; afterwards studied painting under William Bromley, and in Paris under Bonnat and Cormon. Exhibited at the R.A. from 1876; member of the R.B.A. 1879; member and, later, Vice-President of the R.I. 1886; member of the R.O.I. Died in London 10 June 1924."
His specialty was scenes of rustic genre and the countryside showing pretty farm girls (often using his own daughter as a model) at work in the fields or on the farm - much like the French Realist artist Julien Dupré; or women at rest in tranquil landscapes or cottage gardens. In 1881 he married Edith Lilian Atkinson, daughter of T.L. Atkinson (the mezzotint engraver), and they had one daughter - Lilian (who also became an artist).
Frank Dadd was born on the 28th March 1851 in London. He studied at the Royal College of Art and at the Royal Academy Schools, where he won a Silver medal for drawing from life. He commenced black and white work in about 1882 and worked as an illustrator for the Illustrated London News from 1878-1884 and then at The Graphic.
He specialised in historical and genre paintings, and in addition illustrated several books including "All is not gold that glitters", "The Flag Beer and Skittles", "The Captain of the Troop", "Follow the drum", "Coaching days and Coaching ways", and Baring Goulds "The Broom Squire" and "Types of the Army and Navy”.
He was honoured to have his paintings chosen for exhibition at the Royal Academy from 1878. He was elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Water-colours in 1884 and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in 1888.
He lived at Wallington in Surrey and later at Teignmouth in Devon where he died on 7th March 1929.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dadd
Other Pears Annual images by Frank Dadd that I knew of in 2015 (when I first saw this jigsaw):
1907 A Merry Christmas (skating scene)
1908 A Winter's Morning, from the Pears Annual (hunt scene)
1912 A Lucky Shot (boys with rabbit)
1915 Sharing His Crust (children and minstrel in snow).
The well known artist Richard Dadd was (I believe) Frank's uncle. Richard Dadd (1817 – 1886) was an English painter of the Victorian era, noted for his depictions of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes, rendered with obsessively minuscule detail. Most of the works for which he is best known were created while he was a patient in Bethlem and Broadmoor hospitals.
BCD House Party 2020 Two Pears Show & Tell Jigsaws 4
A well known BCD member and ebay seller brought along these two fine examples from his collection, which has specialised in a number of areas, including Pears jigsaws and jigsaws by Enid Stocken. Here are examples from the former.
L: This is 'Making Friends', a famous Pears Print of a charming Victorian painting showing two small girls feeding the ducks beside the river. This print was issued with the 1900 Pears Christmas Annual and is by the artist Yeend King.
R: This is a superb 414pc vintage push-fit jigsaw cut from a print in the 1907 Pears Album. I love the fine, accurate line-cutting around all the figures and the way the ice has been cut to mimic the score marks of the skaters' blades. The image, entitled 'A Merry Christmas' is by Frank Dadd. It is popular with jigsaw cutters, and also featured in the range of Wentworth for several years and I have also seen cardboard versions. A number of other vintage jigsaws of this painting have turned up over the years - stgenix sold a 600pc push-fit line-cut one with 4repl in 2018 and I recently bought one of 350pc from the collection of Dave Cooper with an interesting cut and few whimsies.
John Henry Yeend King 1855–1924
Landscape and genre painter in oil and watercolour. Born 21 August 1855 in London. Apprenticed for three years to the firm of O'Connor, glass painters; afterwards studied painting under William Bromley, and in Paris under Bonnat and Cormon. Exhibited at the R.A. from 1876; member of the R.B.A. 1879; member and, later, Vice-President of the R.I. 1886; member of the R.O.I. Died in London 10 June 1924."
His specialty was scenes of rustic genre and the countryside showing pretty farm girls (often using his own daughter as a model) at work in the fields or on the farm - much like the French Realist artist Julien Dupré; or women at rest in tranquil landscapes or cottage gardens. In 1881 he married Edith Lilian Atkinson, daughter of T.L. Atkinson (the mezzotint engraver), and they had one daughter - Lilian (who also became an artist).
Frank Dadd was born on the 28th March 1851 in London. He studied at the Royal College of Art and at the Royal Academy Schools, where he won a Silver medal for drawing from life. He commenced black and white work in about 1882 and worked as an illustrator for the Illustrated London News from 1878-1884 and then at The Graphic.
He specialised in historical and genre paintings, and in addition illustrated several books including "All is not gold that glitters", "The Flag Beer and Skittles", "The Captain of the Troop", "Follow the drum", "Coaching days and Coaching ways", and Baring Goulds "The Broom Squire" and "Types of the Army and Navy”.
He was honoured to have his paintings chosen for exhibition at the Royal Academy from 1878. He was elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Water-colours in 1884 and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in 1888.
He lived at Wallington in Surrey and later at Teignmouth in Devon where he died on 7th March 1929.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dadd
Other Pears Annual images by Frank Dadd that I knew of in 2015 (when I first saw this jigsaw):
1907 A Merry Christmas (skating scene)
1908 A Winter's Morning, from the Pears Annual (hunt scene)
1912 A Lucky Shot (boys with rabbit)
1915 Sharing His Crust (children and minstrel in snow).
The well known artist Richard Dadd was (I believe) Frank's uncle. Richard Dadd (1817 – 1886) was an English painter of the Victorian era, noted for his depictions of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes, rendered with obsessively minuscule detail. Most of the works for which he is best known were created while he was a patient in Bethlem and Broadmoor hospitals.