English landscape

Name: WILLIAM RATCLIFFE (BRITISH, 1870-1955)
Brand: English landscape
Price: 1200.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 1,512

Estimate

GBP 1,500 - GBP 2,000

Closed: 15 Dec 2022

Loading details

WILLIAM RATCLIFFE (BRITISH, 1870-1955)

English landscape

Price Realised GBP 1,512

Closed: 15 Dec 2022

Price Realised GBP 1,512

Closed: 15 Dec 2022

Details Lot Essay Related Articles More from

WILLIAM RATCLIFFE (BRITISH, 1870-1955)
English landscape
signed 'W. Ratcliffe' (lower left)
pencil, pen and black ink and watercolour, heightened with touches of bodycolour on buff tissue paper
14¹⁄₈ x 18³⁄₄ in. (36 x 47.5 cm.)

The artist, by whom given to
Stanley Parker, and by descent to the present owner.

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
Please note this lot is the property of a consumer. See H1 of the Conditions of Sale.

Conditions of Sale
FAQs
This lot is offered by Christie Manson & Woods Ltd

Brought to you by

Alastair PlumbSpecialist, Head of Sale, European Art

A Christie's specialist may contact you to discuss this lot or to notify you if the condition changes prior to the sale.

aplumb@christies.com +44 (0) 20 7752 3298

Lot Essay

Born in 1870, Ratcliffe was raised in Manchester and began studying practical design at Manchester School of Art. Inspired by the Arts and Crafts ethic, in 1894 Ratcliffe began working as a wallpaper designer before moving to London in 1901. However, it was only after his move in 1906 to Westholm Green in Letchworth Garden City that Ratcliffe began to fully dedicate himself to painting.
Letchworth was the brainchild of Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928) and was home to numerous artists, including Harold Gilman (1876-1919), who Ratcliffe became close with. In the surroundings of the countryside and encouraged by Gilman, Ratcliffe shifted his focus from practical design to fine art, enrolling in the Slade School of Fine Art, London, in 1910. Shortly after his enrolment, Ratcliffe was vouched for by Gilman to become a member of the Camden Town Group. In Ratcliffe’s obituary in , he was praised for having ‘domesticated Post-Impressionism in England as Impressionism had been domesticated by the original members of the New England Art Club’ (, 8 January 1955, p. 9).