IRISH SCHOOL LARGE OIL PAINTING By A FINE IMPRESSIONIST ARTIST 20th CENTURY

PAINTING REF 11505
 
FINE RARE PIECE 
 20th Century Circa 1960's OIL PAINTING 
GOLD / WHITE GILT FRAME
By Similar $5000 Premier Collection
NEW COLLECTION Of RARE IRISH PIECES
 
Canvas Panel in Very Good condition 
Cleaned ready to hang 
(see pictures)
 
Maurice Canning Wilks was a landscape and portrait painter born in 
Belfast and his father was a linen designer. He was educated at Malone 
Public School and then at Belfast College of Art. When Wilks was only nineteen, 
he exhibited for the first time at the Royal Hibernian Academy,
Dublin, and then went on to exhibit his work in London, Montreal, 
Boston and Toronto, many of which were solo exhibitions.
Later on in his life he was elected an associate member of the 
RHA and a full member of the Royal Ulster Academy.
 
Wilks was very much inspired by the work of James Humbert Craig and 
his own portrait of Craig is in Bangor Town Hall.
 
Maurice’s subject matter is all over Ireland but he was particularly keen 
on Donegal and the West of Ireland. However, 
he was also a very successful portrait painter who flourished in
commissioned portraits.  Towards the later years of his life, 
Wilks had a studio in Dublin, which inspired him to paint many everyday 
scenes of Dublin. His belief was, ‘hard work and regular hours’.
 Today we can see his artwork in the Ulster Museum, 
the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum and many others. 
 
Painted in a 20th Century impressionist style
 
Title:  Irish Mountain Scene
 
Signature : yes
 
Signed : M C Wilks
 
Provenance: john castagno art 
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Medium : Oil painting on Panel 
 
 
Condition: good
 
Country: Irish school 
 
Frame size : 30.5 in x 23 in 
( 78 cm x 59 cm)
 
 
Panel size : 24" x 16" 
 
 
With an estimate of £5000 - £6500 in a West End Gallery in London