BCD Show & Tell Peacock CE Clifford & Co 110pc Obstinacy no2 10x8in adj DSC09560
Martin & Frances's second show & tell item was this early 20thC push fit which bears all the hallmarks of a jigsaw manufactured by Peacock as contractors - a red mock croc box, side label 'The Great Picture Puzzle Craze' and red box seals, and a typical smooth Peacock cut.
CE Clifford & Co Ltd (Fine Art Publishers, 12 Bury St, St James' London, Tel no 1210 Mayfair) 110pc no 2 Obstinacy, 10x8in.
The image shows a recalcitrant donkey, laden with produce and ducks in its side panniers, stopped across train tracks resisting the girl's efforts to get it clear in the face of an oncoming train.
The National Gallery website gives information about the firm CE Clifford, whose founder was descended from sculptor John Charles Felix Rossi (grandfather), and grocer/oilman father.
C.E. Clifford
artists’ colourman 1849-1876,
photographic materials manufacturer 1856-1865,
1870 Clifford advertised as a colourman and additionally as a ‘carver, gilder, looking glass and picture framemaker’
picture restorer from 1877;
C.E. Clifford & Co from 1887, printsellers;
C.E. Clifford & Co Ltd 1909-1924, fine art publishers, printsellers, framemakers, picture restorers.
At 30 Piccadilly, London WC 1848-1887, 12 Piccadilly 1887-1892, 200 Piccadilly 1892-1894, 21 Haymarket 1895-1911, 12 Bury St, St James's 1911-1914, 3 Regent Place, Regent St 1914-1924.
Clifford appears to have retired in 1887 at the age of 66. The successor business, C.E. Clifford & Co, moved from 30 to 12 Piccadilly in 1887. It announced a sale on the premises at no.30 of the remaining stock of engravings, etchings and photogravures and also of the shop fittings. C.E. Clifford & Co turned to print publishing, issuing prints 1887-1907 from the Clifford Gallery. It was carried on by William Batley (b. c.1853) until it was incorporated as C.E. Clifford & Co Ltd in 1909. It advertised as fine art publishers and printsellers (The Year's Art 1913) and continued until voluntarily wound up in 1924. (Its activities as printsellers see Pamela Fletcher and Anne Helmreich (eds), The Rise of the Modern Art Market in London: 1850-1939, 2011, p.298.)
Charles Edward Clifford (1821-1903) was the son of Edward and Sarah Clifford, and baptised at St George Hanover Square. Charles Edward Clifford commenced trading as an artists’ colourman in 1848 and was listed in 7 successive censuses from 1841 to 1901. In 1841 as a boy with his parents and sisters in Lower Grosvenor St, Hanover Square, his father a grocer and oilman. In 1851 above the shop at 30 Piccadilly, an artists’ colourman, age 28, with wife Eliza, employing four men. In 1861 living at 18 Clifton Road East, an artists’ colourman, age 38, with wife Eliza. In 1871 at Kilburn Lodge, Middlesex, as Artists’ Repository, employing five men and two boys. In 1881 still at this address but now a picture restorer, artist (& printseller), age 58, with wife, three daughters ages 23, 21 and 20, and two sons ages 22 and 17. In 1891 in Longfield, Kent, as a widower, retired, age 69, with his adult daughter, Ada. In 1901 in Portsmouth as a widower, age 80. He died in Portsmouth, age 82, in 1903, leaving an estate worth £9997. The artist Edward C. Clifford (1858-1910) was his son.
www.npg.org.uk/research/programmes/directory-of-suppliers/c/
BCD Show & Tell Peacock CE Clifford & Co 110pc Obstinacy no2 10x8in adj DSC09560
Martin & Frances's second show & tell item was this early 20thC push fit which bears all the hallmarks of a jigsaw manufactured by Peacock as contractors - a red mock croc box, side label 'The Great Picture Puzzle Craze' and red box seals, and a typical smooth Peacock cut.
CE Clifford & Co Ltd (Fine Art Publishers, 12 Bury St, St James' London, Tel no 1210 Mayfair) 110pc no 2 Obstinacy, 10x8in.
The image shows a recalcitrant donkey, laden with produce and ducks in its side panniers, stopped across train tracks resisting the girl's efforts to get it clear in the face of an oncoming train.
The National Gallery website gives information about the firm CE Clifford, whose founder was descended from sculptor John Charles Felix Rossi (grandfather), and grocer/oilman father.
C.E. Clifford
artists’ colourman 1849-1876,
photographic materials manufacturer 1856-1865,
1870 Clifford advertised as a colourman and additionally as a ‘carver, gilder, looking glass and picture framemaker’
picture restorer from 1877;
C.E. Clifford & Co from 1887, printsellers;
C.E. Clifford & Co Ltd 1909-1924, fine art publishers, printsellers, framemakers, picture restorers.
At 30 Piccadilly, London WC 1848-1887, 12 Piccadilly 1887-1892, 200 Piccadilly 1892-1894, 21 Haymarket 1895-1911, 12 Bury St, St James's 1911-1914, 3 Regent Place, Regent St 1914-1924.
Clifford appears to have retired in 1887 at the age of 66. The successor business, C.E. Clifford & Co, moved from 30 to 12 Piccadilly in 1887. It announced a sale on the premises at no.30 of the remaining stock of engravings, etchings and photogravures and also of the shop fittings. C.E. Clifford & Co turned to print publishing, issuing prints 1887-1907 from the Clifford Gallery. It was carried on by William Batley (b. c.1853) until it was incorporated as C.E. Clifford & Co Ltd in 1909. It advertised as fine art publishers and printsellers (The Year's Art 1913) and continued until voluntarily wound up in 1924. (Its activities as printsellers see Pamela Fletcher and Anne Helmreich (eds), The Rise of the Modern Art Market in London: 1850-1939, 2011, p.298.)
Charles Edward Clifford (1821-1903) was the son of Edward and Sarah Clifford, and baptised at St George Hanover Square. Charles Edward Clifford commenced trading as an artists’ colourman in 1848 and was listed in 7 successive censuses from 1841 to 1901. In 1841 as a boy with his parents and sisters in Lower Grosvenor St, Hanover Square, his father a grocer and oilman. In 1851 above the shop at 30 Piccadilly, an artists’ colourman, age 28, with wife Eliza, employing four men. In 1861 living at 18 Clifton Road East, an artists’ colourman, age 38, with wife Eliza. In 1871 at Kilburn Lodge, Middlesex, as Artists’ Repository, employing five men and two boys. In 1881 still at this address but now a picture restorer, artist (& printseller), age 58, with wife, three daughters ages 23, 21 and 20, and two sons ages 22 and 17. In 1891 in Longfield, Kent, as a widower, retired, age 69, with his adult daughter, Ada. In 1901 in Portsmouth as a widower, age 80. He died in Portsmouth, age 82, in 1903, leaving an estate worth £9997. The artist Edward C. Clifford (1858-1910) was his son.
www.npg.org.uk/research/programmes/directory-of-suppliers/c/