Description
Country Homes Antiques Scotland est;1985
SOLD William Barr (Scottish) Oil Painting
A very fine and large view depicting Edinburgh Castle. The work has a lovely misty morning atmosphere with grazing sheep to the foreground. William Barrs work is collected in the United States as well as being renown in the UK as he worked in San Francisco for many years at the end of his life.
He studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1895 to 1898, at South Kensington in London, and at the Académie Julian in Paris. Taught at Paisley School of Art for ten years later visited California. For the first time in 1912 and in 1915, following a trip to the San Francisco Panama Pacific Exhibition, he decided to settle there. He exhibited with the California Historical Society and the San Francisco Union League Club.
Size; 18 x 24 inches unframed / 26 x 32 framed
Auction records
Description: Evening Sunshine, California
signed ‘W M. Barr’ (lower left)
oil on canvas
18 1/8 x 24 1/4 in. (46 x 61.6 cm.)
Artist or Maker: William Barr.
Description: View of Mt. Tamalpais
signed ‘Wm. Barr’ (lower left)
oil on canvas
14 x 22in
Description: Coastal view
signed ‘Wm Barr’ (lower left)
oil on canvas
16 x 20 1/4in
William Barr (Anglo/American, 1867-1933), Evening in the Trossachs/ A Scottish View, Titled and signed or inscribed “…Wm. Barr”
May 18, 5:00 PM EST by Skinner
Est:Â $2,000-Â $2,500Â Sold:
Los Angeles, 9 Dec 1999: San Juan Capistrano Mission Viewed through the Garden. Arcade at San Juan Capistrano (oil on canvas, a pair, 18 × 24 ins/46 × 61 cm) USD 4,000
Los Angeles, 9 Dec 1999: San Juan Capistrano Mission (oil on canvas, 28 × 36 ins/71 × 91 cm) USD 5,500
London, 9 May 2000: The Smithy (oil on canvas, 20 × 30 ins/51 × 76 cm) GBP 1,600
Bury St Edmunds, 9 Dec 2000: Study of Working Horses Being Led along a Country Path (oil on canvas, 24 × 35 ins/61 × 89 cm) GBP 1,500
Leyburn, 26 April 2001: Elderly Man Reading in a Cottage Interior (oil on canvas, 24 × 18 ins/61 × 46 cm) GBP 1,400
Edinburgh, 26 May 2001: Loch Lomond, Spring and Summer (oil on canvas, a pair, 18 × 24 ins/46 × 61 cm) GBP 3,600
Pasadena, 18 Feb 2003: House and Oaks in a Landscape (oil on canvas, 12 × 16 ins/30 × 41 cm) USD 1,700
San Francisco, 10 Dec 2003: The Yellow House (oil on canvas, 12 × 16 ins/30 × 41 cm) USD 2,750
Pasadena, 17 Feb 2004: Rocky Coastal Inlet (oil on canvas, 12 × 16 ins/30 × 41 cm) USD 4,000
San Francisco, 8 June 2004: Mission Courtyard in Bloom. View of a Mission Garden (oil on canvas, a pair, 18 × 24 ins/45 × 61 cm) USD 6,500