Large 19th Century classical scene of Venus and Vulcan in the forge, oil on canvas by Herbert Arnould Olivier. Excellent quality and condition example of the artists work on a huge scale probably as an exhibition entry at the Paris Salon or Royal Academy. Presented in a good gilt frame.
Measurements: 68" x 53" framed approx
Provenance: The artist and by descent through his family
Artist Biography
Born 9 September 1861, in Battle (Sussex); died 2 March 1952, on Hayling Island (Hampshire).
Painter. Figures, portraits, scenes with figures, genre scenes.
Herbert Arnould Olivier studied at the Royal Academy Schools from 1881 and participated in Royal Academy exhibitions from 1883. He also exhibited at the Paris Salon. At the end of World War I he served as unofficial artist at the Peace Conference of Versailles. During World War II he made independent submissions to the War Artists Advisory Committee.
Museum and Gallery Holdings
London (Imperial War Mus.): The Terms of the Armistice, 3-4 November 1918 (1918, oil on canvas); General Di Robilant: Italian Military Representative on the Supreme War Council, Versailles (1919, oil on canvas); General Sir Emile Belin, KCB, French Permanent Military Representative, Supreme War Council, Versailles (1919, oil on canvas); General Tasker Bliss: Military Representative of the United States of America at the Supreme War Council, Versailles (1919, oil on canvas); Major General the Honourable Charles Sackville-West, CMG, British Permanent Military Representative (1919, oil on canvas); Sketch of the Table in the Hall of Mirrors, at which the Treaty of Versailles was Signed (1919, oil on canvas); The Four Military Representatives of the Supreme War Council, Versailles (1919, oil on canvas)
London (Nat. Portrait Gal.): Dame Freya Madeline Stark (1923, oil on canvas)
London (Tate Collection): Mrs Edwin Bale (1900, oil on canvas)
Oxford (University): Portrait of Sandford
Versailles (Mus. Nat. du Chteau et des Trianons): A Meeting of the Supreme War Council at the Trianon Palace in Versailles, July 1918 (1924, oil on canvas)
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