ATTRIBUTED TO ALEXANDER MANN ROI NEAC (Scottish, 1853-1908) oil on board - Odalisque, reclining maiden on an ottoman beside animal skin rug, slippers and coffee pot, in an Arabic interior with domes and minarets in the distance, signed, 33.5 x 16.5cmsProvenance: private collection West Wales.Auctioneer's Note: Alexander Mann was born in Glasgow, Scotland on January 22, 1853. He died in London on January 26, 1908. The second son of James Mann, merchant and collector, he took drawing lessons from the age of ten with Robert Greenlees (1820-94) and then attended evening classes at the Glasgow School of Art, where Greenlees was headmaster. In 1877 he went to Paris and enrolled at the Académie Julian, and then studied under Mihály Munkácsy and from 1881 to 1885 under Carolus-Duran. From 1883-93 Mann exhibited in London at the Royal Academy, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Fine Art Society, New Gallery, Ridley Art Club, New English Art Club and Society of British Artists, a society that appointed James McNeill Whistler its President in 1886. At the same year he was invited to become the first Scottish member of the New English Art Club and was joined by several of his friends, notably John Lavery Thomas Millie Dow of the Glasgow Boys and Norman Garstin Influenced by the Hague school and by Jules Bastien-Lepage his picture A Bead Stringer, Venice gained an honourable mention at the Salon in 1885. After a public controversy over this painting when it was exhibited at the Royal Glasgow Institute, Mann settled in England, at West Hagbourne, Berkshire, and later in the neighbouring village of Blewbury, where he painted a series of views of the Downs and portraits of country people. Mann travelled extensively in Britain, Europe and the Americas. A visit to Venice in 1884 was Alexander's first artistic venture beyond Britain and the immediate environs of Paris; this was followed by a voyage to the Caribbean and the Southern American States, perhaps inspired by American artist friends in Paris. From 1890 to 1892 he lived with his family in Tangiers. Later he travelled to Madrid through Southern Spain in 1892 accompanied by John Lavery another alumnus of the Académie Julian. Considered by many to be one of ''The Glasgow Boys.''Comments: good overall condition.
ATTRIBUTED TO ALEXANDER MANN ROI NEAC (Scottish, 1853-1908) oil on board - Odalisque, reclining maiden on an ottoman beside animal skin rug, slippers and coffee pot, in an Arabic interior with domes and minarets in the distance, signed, 33.5 x 16.5cmsProvenance: private collection West Wales.Auctioneer's Note: Alexander Mann was born in Glasgow, Scotland on January 22, 1853. He died in London on January 26, 1908. The second son of James Mann, merchant and collector, he took drawing lessons from the age of ten with Robert Greenlees (1820-94) and then attended evening classes at the Glasgow School of Art, where Greenlees was headmaster. In 1877 he went to Paris and enrolled at the Académie Julian, and then studied under Mihály Munkácsy and from 1881 to 1885 under Carolus-Duran. From 1883-93 Mann exhibited in London at the Royal Academy, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Fine Art Society, New Gallery, Ridley Art Club, New English Art Club and Society of British Artists, a society that appointed James McNeill Whistler its President in 1886. At the same year he was invited to become the first Scottish member of the New English Art Club and was joined by several of his friends, notably John Lavery Thomas Millie Dow of the Glasgow Boys and Norman Garstin Influenced by the Hague school and by Jules Bastien-Lepage his picture A Bead Stringer, Venice gained an honourable mention at the Salon in 1885. After a public controversy over this painting when it was exhibited at the Royal Glasgow Institute, Mann settled in England, at West Hagbourne, Berkshire, and later in the neighbouring village of Blewbury, where he painted a series of views of the Downs and portraits of country people. Mann travelled extensively in Britain, Europe and the Americas. A visit to Venice in 1884 was Alexander's first artistic venture beyond Britain and the immediate environs of Paris; this was followed by a voyage to the Caribbean and the Southern American States, perhaps inspired by American artist friends in Paris. From 1890 to 1892 he lived with his family in Tangiers. Later he travelled to Madrid through Southern Spain in 1892 accompanied by John Lavery another alumnus of the Académie Julian. Considered by many to be one of ''The Glasgow Boys.''Comments: good overall condition.
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