Bertram Walter Priestman R.A. [1868-1951] View of a Northern Town, probably in Yorkshire P467

A masterly oil study (circa 1910) of the outskirts of a manufacturing town in the North of England, possibly Bradford or Sheffield, by Bertram Walter Priestman, one of the most highly regarded painters in his time by his fellow artists. A painter’s painter. Possibly a study for his first acknowledged masterpiece, “Outskirts of a Northern Town”. Oil on board. Art measures 15" x 9.5".Frame 21.25" x 15.75" Bertram Priestman R.A.by Nicholas BowlbyFrom Antique Collecting magazine, June 1985 Bertram Priestman was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, in 1868. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1889, and from that time until his death in 1951 he gained a reputation as one of the most eminent painters of his time. He was elected a Royal Academician in 1923, exhibited alongside Corot, Degas and Boudin at the Goupil Galleries in 1909, was described as the “finest sky painter of our day” by Sir Frank Brangwyn, and is represented in the national collections of Canada, Hungary and Ireland amongst ot