Date : 16/03/2024 Lot 1267
Edwardian mahogany artist's cabinet once belonging to the British artist Eli Marsden Wilson (1877-1965), raised panelled back mounted by carved brackets, sloped and hinged glazed lid enclosing paint holders and compartments, up-and-over panelled door revealing three slides, fitted with two banks of five graduating drawers with recessed brass handles, on skirted base.
Together with a quantity of artists' equipment and tools including paints, paintbrushes, charcoal, chalks, etc. and various prints relating to the life of the artist, including Quaker anti-war posters, Victorian Stevengraphs, and various chromolithographs
Provenance: Removed from the studio of Eli Marsden Wilson. The cabinet comes to us for sale through family descent. The vendor is descendant of Marsden. Many further etchings removed from the cabinet are being sold in the Spring Art Sale, Friday 15th March 2024, Lots 265-271.
Notes: born in Ossett, Eli Marsden Wilson was the only son of Alfred Wilson, a foreman beamer, and Emma Marsden, and had five sisters. After studying at Wakefield College of Art, he moved to the Royal College of Art in London, where he became a pupil of Sir Frank Short. He had his first exhibit at the Royal Academy in 1905, the same year he married fellow artist Hilda Mary Pemberton.
A Quaker, vegetarian, and pacifist, he was a conscientious objector in World War I and as such was imprisoned in 1917 for two years. In September 1922 he was commissioned by Princess Marie Louise to produce miniature etchings for Queen Mary's Dolls' House at Windsor Castle; two such etchings are being sold in the Spring Art Sale, Friday 15th March 2024, Lot 265.
SOLD £3100